A bluejay in peacock feathers.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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