Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
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Death Earth Move Sea Voice
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
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Envy bestrides praise.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
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Learn what you are and be such.
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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.
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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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Even genius is tied to profit.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Fate Jealous Noble Pity
Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift foot And wins the greatest of prizes By steadfastness and strength.
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For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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