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

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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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue

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

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

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