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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
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
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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