O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Anand Thakur
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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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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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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