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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

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