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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

Francois Rabelais

I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Anand Thakur
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Father Feeling Reveal Time Truth
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Leave Myself Poor
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Call Counsel Force Time Virtue
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Known
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Drink Myself Thinking
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Adventure Himself Horse Lose
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Freedom Power Rule Willing
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Anand Thakur
Machination is worth more than force.
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Force One Liner Worth

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

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