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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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Who seeks shall find.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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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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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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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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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
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