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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man you will learn to halt.

Of the Training of Children.

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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.

Of the Training of Children.

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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

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According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult.

Of the Training of Children.

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To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety.

Of the Training of Children.

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Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

Of the Training of Children.

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Nothing made the horse so fat as the king’s eye.

Of the Training of Children.

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Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

Of the Training of Children.

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’T is a wise saying, Drive on your own track.

Of the Training of Children.

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It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Of the Training of Children.

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Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares. 1

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Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.

Of the Training of Children.

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When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back. 2

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. 3

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Note 1.
See Spenser, Quotation 28. [back]

Note 2.
See Publius Syrus, Quotation 58. [back]

Note 3.
See Beaumont and Fletcher, Quotation 14. [back]

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