You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Anand Thakur
You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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I bend but do not break.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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