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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

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