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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

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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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

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