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

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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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
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
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

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