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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.

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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Afraid Person Rustle
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Call Cry Milk Past Proverb
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God

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