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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

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