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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
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
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
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

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

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