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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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