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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

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