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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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