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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
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
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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