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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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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

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

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