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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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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves

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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