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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
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
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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