A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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