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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

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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
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
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide

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