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

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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk

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

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