Art is man’s refuge from adversity.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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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
A man that runs away may fight again.
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Coward Fight Man Run
No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
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Anand Thakur
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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One Liner Silence
The workman still is greater than his work.
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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
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All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
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Known Man Refuge Smile
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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Anand Thakur
Silence is often advantageous.
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Advantage One Liner Silence
If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.
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Why should he who is scared be careful?
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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.
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