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You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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A lie never lives to be old.
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Live Lying Old One Liner
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
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
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
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Learning Man Mindset Shame Thinking Wisdom
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
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
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
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
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Friendship Love Myself Word

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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