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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success

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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