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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

Seneca the Younger

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
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
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
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
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
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

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