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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Cherish Myself Strength Truth
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Friendship Love Myself Word
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Favor Gratitude
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
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
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
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Action Fancy Knowledge Test Trial Yourself
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
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
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness

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