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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish

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