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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 examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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 are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom

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

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