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

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Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself

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

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