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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
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 soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Advice One Liner Talk Wisdom
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
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
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Crime Goodness Himself Man Mistake Pride
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
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
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Kindness One Liner
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Inscription Myself Promise Water Woman

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