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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves

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