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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
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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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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