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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
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

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

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