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

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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach

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

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