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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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 mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope

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