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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
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
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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