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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Alone Bad Day Man Reveal Time
Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Brave Heart Let Go
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness Price Return Yourself
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Crime Goodness Himself Man Mistake Pride
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
Who seeks shall find.
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Finding Search Seek
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth

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