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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner

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