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Trying is the first step toward failure.

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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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Action Applause Chance General Receive Shine Success
The stars never lie, but the astrologers lie about the stars.
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Astrology Lie Stars
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
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Empty One Liner Unsaid Wind
Choose well.
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Business Choose Life One Liner
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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Doubt Wise
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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Action Applause Chance General Receive Shine Success
There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible – magic to make the sanest man go mad.
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Heat Irresistible Love Lover Mad Magic Man Rush Whisper
We men are wretched things.
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Men One Liner Wretch
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
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Alive Breathe Crawl Earth Man
What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
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Breath Children Drop Leaf Men Wind
Death submits to no one.
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Death One Liner Submit
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
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Die Glorious Greatness Inspirational Men Struggle
He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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Human Nature Lie Truth
Some things you will think of yourself, some things God will put into your mind.
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God Mind Thinking Yourself
Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.
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Knowledge Result
To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don’t have to do squat!
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Hate Love People Respect

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