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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth

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