Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
SOPHOCLESAll 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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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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