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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

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