The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
QUINTILIANIt is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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