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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

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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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

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