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

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice 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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