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Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

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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
Fate’s sentence written on the brow no hand can e’er efface.
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Fate Hands
Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.
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Beast Learning Men
There is no medicine to cure a fool!
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Cures Fool Medicine
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
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
The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
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Ignorance Lying Men
Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.
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Giving Lying Two
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
I’ve wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I’ve laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I’ve eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.
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Fire Land Pride
Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.
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Knowledge Men Wonderful
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
The pearl on my beloved’s neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
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Oysters Pearls Sacrifice
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
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
The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.
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Flames Men Torch

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

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