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Time is generally the best doctor.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Deed Human Nature Reward Value
First appearance deceives many.
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Appearance Business Deceive
Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.
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Dare Encouragement Failure Greatness Inspirational One Liner
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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Birthday Dust Grains Youth
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Endurance Prove Sorrow
Even as a cow she was lovely.
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Cow Lovely
Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Death Deep Delay Punishment
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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Death Delicate Ideas Kill Man Sneer Yawn
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Character Leisure People Reveal
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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Dignity Love Share
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Courage Men Passion Wine
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
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Count Hands Human Being Intelligence Strength
We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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Acceptance Strange
Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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Concern Millionaire Promise
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Believe Convenient God
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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Achievement Attempt Difficult Task Worth

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