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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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