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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

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Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
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
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
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
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Command Enforcement Yourself
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
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
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
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong

You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

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