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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation 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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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

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