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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible

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