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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.

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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.

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