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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

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