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

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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study

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

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