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

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness 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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar

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

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