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

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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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

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

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