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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.

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

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset 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
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible

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