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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

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