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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
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Convinced Nature See
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Better Envy One Liner
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.
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Decision Necessary Opinion Opportunity View
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
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Absence Envy Failure Secret Success
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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Destiny Event Grief Knowledge Truth
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Eyes Man Music Trust
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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Men Philosophy Power Suffering Worst
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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