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The king’s might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

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Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
Call no man happy before he dies.
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Death Happiness Himself Men
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Death Life Refuge
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
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
Haste in every business brings failures.
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Business Failure Haste
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
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Character Envy Human Kind Nature
My men have become women, but the women men.
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Courage Men Women
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
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Country Goodness Human Philosophy Togetherness
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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Death Inspirational One Liner Suicide
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Beginning End Together
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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God Himself Suffering
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
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Force Little Wisdom
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

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