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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Seneca the Younger

All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

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