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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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