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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

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