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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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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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