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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Quintilian
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Quintilian
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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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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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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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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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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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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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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian
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