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The part of life which we really live is short.

Seneca the Younger

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
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
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
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
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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