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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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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
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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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature

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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