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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Fools Happiness Himself Man Talk Thinking
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Decision Quick Safety
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
Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Hard Work Remember Success
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
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
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Existence Thinking Wisdom
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Action Teaching Ugly
Opportunity has power over all things.
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One Liner Opportunity Power
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Inscription Myself Promise Water Woman
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune

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