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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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