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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

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