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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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