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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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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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

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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