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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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