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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity 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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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner

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