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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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
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
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time

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