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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Forgive Man Necessary Pain True Value Wisdom
Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Art Himself Person Photograph Work
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Determination Diligence Greatness Impossible Performance Perservance Skills Strength Work
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Enjoyment Happiness Travel Woman
Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Heart Talk Trust Voice Yourself
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Associate Greatness Local Man Position
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Choice Liberty Nation Starve Work
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Break Hope Kindness Return Rule Violence
A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Growth Man Mindset Place
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Exam Fake Invitation Truth
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
Grief is a species of idleness.
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Born Children Grief One Liner Wasted Time
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Deep Hesitation Myself Sharp Silence Weapon Word Yourself
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Fashion Opinion Reason
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Better Choice Death Live Rich
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Equality Monument Past Pride Wisdom
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Desire Man Myself Reading Writing
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Courage Greatness Himself Man Preserve Security Virtue
When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Belief Hope Success Work
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Coward Patriot Refuge
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Better Company Enough Food Man Prison Room
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Afford Difficult Life Pleasure
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Object Possible Try
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Dangerous Integrity Knowledge Weakness
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Man Praise Rich Virtue Wealth Wisdom World
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Advice Need Welcome

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