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The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth– To them e’en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.

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Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.
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Enemy Energy Friends No
Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.
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Knowledge Men Wonderful
Fate’s sentence written on the brow no hand can e’er efface.
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Fate Hands
I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.
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Life Wasted Life
The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth– To them e’en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.
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Happiness Inward Kings Source
There is no medicine to cure a fool!
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Cures Fool Medicine
Our life is like th’ unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer’s cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o’er the gulfs Of Being’s stormy stream.
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God Joy Summer
Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.
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Beast Learning Men
Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day,
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Happiness Kings Yield
Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.
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Beloved Best Knowledge Wealth
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.
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Blades Money Virtue
Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal.
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Character Men Rain
A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.
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Fall Good Man Men
What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in ones duty.
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Happiness Hero Peace
For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life’s end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.
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Boys Men Wrinkles
Kindness can turn the bad man’s heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
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Heart Kindness Wise

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