The workman still is greater than his work.

Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
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Reaction Yourself
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
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Anand Thakur
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
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How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
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He who labors diligently need never despair.
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There is but one genuine love potion – consideration.
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Love Oneself Potion
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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Hairs White Wisdom
The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
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Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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Conscience is a God to all mortals.
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By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
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People Willing Wisdom Yourself
Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature’s way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.
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In many things it is not well to say, “Know thyself”; it is better to say, “Know others.”
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Better Knowledge Known
No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
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Anand Thakur
Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
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Chance God Kind Observation Preserve

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