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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle

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