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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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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
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
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
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
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection

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