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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win

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