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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit

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