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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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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

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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