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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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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
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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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom

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