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

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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar

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