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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Few Wisdom Word
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
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
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
A lie never lives to be old.
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Live Lying Old One Liner
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
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Existence Thinking Wisdom
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Friendship Stubborn Stupidity
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

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