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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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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
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
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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

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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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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