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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Corruption Currency Kind Man Mindset Money Worst Worth
The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Argument One Liner Strong Truth
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Fear Hear Man
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Existence Thinking Wisdom
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word
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
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Call Cry Milk Past Proverb
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
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Favor Gratitude
No honest man will argue on every side.
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Argument Honesty Man Side
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War

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