To bear lightly the neck’s yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.
PINDARThe days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
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I will be small in small things, great among great.
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Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.
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Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
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The test of any man lies in action.
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Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
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When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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