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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
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
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand

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