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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
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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity

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