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

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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
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
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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching

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

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