To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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Anand Thakur
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Anand Thakur
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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Anand Thakur
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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Anand Thakur
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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Anand Thakur
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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Life Mouse Oneself Trust
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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Blame Home Mistake Point
Practice yourself what you preach.
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Practice Preach Yourself
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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Desire Hope
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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Anand Thakur
Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Anand Thakur
All men love themselves.
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Love Man One Liner
Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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Anand Thakur

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