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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Funny Love Sport Yourself
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Advice One Liner Talk Wisdom
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Crime Goodness Himself Man Mistake Pride
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Blame Fate Fortune Worst
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Healing One Liner Ourselves Sorrow Time
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Failure Goodness Himself Man Wisdom
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News

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