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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.

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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late

Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.

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