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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.

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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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
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
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.

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