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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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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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time

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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