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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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