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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
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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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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