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Medicine for the dead is too late.

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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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
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
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner

Medicine for the dead is too late.

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