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

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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 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 prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude

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

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