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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study

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