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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

Seneca the Younger

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

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