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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom.
SOPHOCLES

Advice One Liner Talk Wisdom
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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One Liner Remember Reward Success
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Learning Man Mindset Shame Thinking Wisdom
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
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

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