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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching

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