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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature

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