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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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk

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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