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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Hard Work Remember Success
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Lying Sweet Unknown
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
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
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
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
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
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness Price Return Yourself
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
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
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
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Jewellery Silence Woman

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