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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing

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