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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present

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