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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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

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

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