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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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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason

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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