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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
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
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth

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