Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QUINTILIANOur 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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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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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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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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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