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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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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Friendship Grief Prosperity
Come and take them.
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Minimalism One Liner
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Creation Deep Music
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
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
Character is simply a habit long continued.
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Character Habit One Liner
The whole like of a man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Man Time
The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.
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Evil Live Man Victim
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
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
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
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Change Deep Friendship Myself
Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
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Season Silence Wisdom
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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Philosophy Soul Spiritual
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
Painting is silent poetry.
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One Liner Poetry Silence
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
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Animal Live Philosophy Right

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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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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