Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
SOPHOCLESStubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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In season, all is good.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Who seeks shall find.
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