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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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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
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
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Easy Medicine Sleep
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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