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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical

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