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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom

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