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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

Pliny the Elder

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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Compare Emotion Former Frustate
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Affect Assume Emotion Genuine Imagine Incredible Nature
Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Agree Agriculture Do Emotion Hope Inspiring Maximum Motivation Opportunity Practise
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Doe First Impossible Inspire Mission Success
No one is wise at all times.
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Attempt Hope Life One Liner Patience Positive Task Time Try Wisdom Wise
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Eath Enemy Kind Men Mother
His only fault is that he has no fault.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Emotion Exercise Improvement Land Patience Positive Seed
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Conscious Envy Hide Inferiority Nature One Liner Shame Shy Suspect

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