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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.

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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
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 liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories

Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.

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