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It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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Fortune Luck Men Side
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Dream Incident Rise
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
Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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Action End Fade Life People 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 wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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Alone Ships Wall
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
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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Design Effort Favour Outcomes Result
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Action Bold Men Moments Planning
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
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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God Greatness Love
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
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
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
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

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

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