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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

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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
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
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

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