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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth

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