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

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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand

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

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