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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.

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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
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

Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.

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