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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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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner

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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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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