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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend

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