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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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