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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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