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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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