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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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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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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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