Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOur destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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