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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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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing

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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