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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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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope

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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