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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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Different Easy Time
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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

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