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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Sophocles

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Adversity Ourselves Recognition Sorrow
Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Attraction Kindness One Liner
A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Fear Hear Man
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Act Fear Feeling Man Word
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Jewellery Silence Woman
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
Always desire to learn something useful.
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Desire Knowledge Learning
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Fools Happiness Himself Man Talk Thinking
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
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
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
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

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