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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
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
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work

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