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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
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
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
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

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