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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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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
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
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 the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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

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