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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity

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