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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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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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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Fast Oneself Result Writing
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
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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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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

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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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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