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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
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
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
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
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth

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