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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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