Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.


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My nature just changes.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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Something attempted, something done Has earned a night's repose.
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Your nature changes when your principles are changed.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.
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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
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Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
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A liar should have a good memory
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That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency
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While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus seg...
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et S...
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. [Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus v...
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. [Lat., Deficit omne quod nascitur.]
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserar...
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick h...
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in th...
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi...
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and prec...
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather ...
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body...
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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