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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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

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