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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.

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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
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
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
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom

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