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The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right
But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart.
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Enjoyment Man Trouble Vice Writing
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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Future Man Mistake Power Wisdom
It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
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Difficult Easy Greatness Man Place Produce
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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Death Nation Rich
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
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Fear Memories Myself Pain
Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Adversity Balance Friendship Weigh
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage Fear Mindset
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
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
To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.
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Alone Beyond Friendship Nature Philosophy Seek
In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.
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Fantasy Season Talk Time Winter Word

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