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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves

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