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Worthy things happen to the worthy.

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It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Difficult Fly Wings
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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Anand Thakur
Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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Fast Feast Future
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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Blame Home Mistake Point
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Animal Away Wolf
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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Anand Thakur
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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Anand Thakur
Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Friendship Wealth
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
PLAUTUS

Labour Lose Word
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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Anand Thakur
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Lost Man Regard Shame
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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Insult Talk Willing Yourself
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Anand Thakur
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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Known Man Oneself Return Worth
No man has perpetual good fortune.
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Anand Thakur
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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Beginning Easy End Start
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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Anand Thakur
How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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Bury Genius Greatness Often
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Anand Thakur
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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Anand Thakur
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Desire Expectation Frequent
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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Known See Yourself
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Anand Thakur
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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Love Yourself
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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Call Courage Hard Knock Occasion

Worthy things happen to the worthy.

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