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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

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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
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
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
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time
Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Hard Work Remember Success
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Healing One Liner Ourselves Sorrow Time
Who seeks shall find.
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Finding Search Seek
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
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
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
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

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

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