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No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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Command Learning Obedience
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
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Blessing Death Goodness Life True
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
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Justice One Liner Slow
Learn to obey before you command.
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Command Learning Obedience Yourself
Speech is the mirror of action.
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Action Mirror One Liner Talk
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.
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Citizenship Ideal Injury State
I grow old, ever learning many things.
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Growth Learning Old
Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.
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Change Day Prospect Right Starve Virtue Wicket
Each day grow older, and learn something new.
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Day Growth Learning Old
Laws are like spider’s webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.
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Catch Law Oneself Poor Spider Trap Weakness
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
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Angry Injury Justice
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
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Commend Friendship Public
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
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Gentle Man Promise Yourself
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
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Desire Myself Wealth Wrong
Poets tell many lies.
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Lying One Liner Poet
Call no man happy until he is dead.
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Call Death Happiness

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