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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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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
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

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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