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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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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 much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom

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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