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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend

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