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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Fools Happiness Himself Man Talk Thinking
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
Opportunity has power over all things.
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One Liner Opportunity Power
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
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Alone Bad Day Man Reveal Time
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
Who seeks shall find.
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Finding Search Seek
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession
Always desire to learn something useful.
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Desire Knowledge Learning
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Action Teaching Ugly
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
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Dangerous Evidence Fake Reason
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Few Wisdom Word
I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Food Myself Recommend
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

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