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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right

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