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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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 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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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