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The happier time, the quicker it passes
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Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.
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Feelings
Stronger
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The living voice is that which sways the soul.
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Soul
Voice
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Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.
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Finishing
Too Much
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That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
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Conditions
Doing Nothing
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In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
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Cases
Pleading
Speech
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Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.
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Excellent
Masters
Taught
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There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.
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Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.
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Glory
Motive
Our Actions
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Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.
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Discernment
Favors
Perception
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Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
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Doubt
Rectitude
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Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.
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Given
Ideas
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Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.
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Honor
Obligation
People
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They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.
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Favors
Values
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It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.
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Exercise
Mind
Wonderful
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The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
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Endure
Memories
Recollection
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And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
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Men
Body
Disease
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He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.
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Book
Gratitude
Might
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However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
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Done
Forget Everything
May
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Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
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Artist
Finishing
Painting
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Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
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Joy
Sorrow
Writing
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There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit
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Book
Mali
Profitable
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It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas
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Learning
May
Practice
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Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.
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Eye
Lying
Sea
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For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.
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Men
Denial
Favors
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Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.
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Form
Generosity
Lovely
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It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.
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Art
Perfection
Skills
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The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.
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Character
Errors
Faults
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So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
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Excuse
Produce
Reader
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Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.
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Investing
Land
Three
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Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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Fall
Lying
Mean
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