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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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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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing

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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