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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Action Fancy Knowledge Test Trial Yourself
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
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
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession
There is no success without hardship.
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Hard Time One Liner Success
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
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
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Jewellery Silence Woman
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Existence Thinking Wisdom
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Himself Learning Weakness Wrong
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
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
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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Good Help Man Misfortune Task
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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God Himself Love Rule Stand Wisdom
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Few Wisdom Word

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