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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

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