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

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A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
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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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
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
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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

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

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