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

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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
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 prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work

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

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