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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue

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