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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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