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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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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
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
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary

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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