One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
QUINTILIANThe gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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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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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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