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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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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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
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
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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

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