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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue

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