By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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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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Lately we have had many losses.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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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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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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