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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
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Friendship Material Value
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
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Force Military Need Skill
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Design Give Up Goal Happiness Inspirational Moments
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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History Imagination Movement War
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Break Cheating Fear Men Place
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
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Better Envy
Great things are won by great dangers.
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Danger Greatness Inspirational One Liner
But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.
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Change Fortunate Human Men Rule
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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Bidding Choice Men Nation World
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall

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