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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection 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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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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