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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
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
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 it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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 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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide

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