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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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