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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

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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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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 the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law

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