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Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
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Regret Remember Talk
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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Advice Learning Live Man True
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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Deep Friendship Struggle
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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Man Philosophy World
Those who receive with most pains and difficulty, remember best; every new think they learn, being, as it were, burnt and branded in on their minds.
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Difficult Learning Pain Thinking
The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
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Difficult God True
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.
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Philosophy Togetherness
The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
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Experience Knowledge Myself Strange True
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
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Character Mindset Seen Word
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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Inspirational Philosophy Wisdom
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be, and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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Literature Myself

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