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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
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
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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