Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
PLAUTUSAnd one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
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For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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I am myself my own commander.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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Let deeds correspond with words.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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