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Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

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Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
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Confidence Nature Success Virtue
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
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Experience Knowledge Myself Strange True
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Difficult Easy
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
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Evidence Love Trust
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Deep Friendship Struggle
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature Myself
May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?
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Impossible Man Myself
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Art Creation Deserve

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