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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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

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