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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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