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Call no man happy before he dies.

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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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Absence Adversity Drawing Mad Men Strength
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
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
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Deep Happiness Home Ideas Philosophy
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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Forever History Time
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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Action Deep Life Passion Philosophy Risk Time
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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Act Knowledge Men Pain Worst
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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Change Men Resistance
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
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
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Falsehood Lying
The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Disease Live Long Time Trials
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
Chances rule men and not men chances.
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Chance Men Rule
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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Character Clothes Modesty Remember

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