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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Seneca the Younger

Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
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
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
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
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

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