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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Blame Fate Fortune Worst
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
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
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
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
Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Hard Work Remember Success
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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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Best Born Past Prize
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
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
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Lying Sweet Unknown
The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Call Cry Milk Past Proverb
What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Believe People Thinking Truth
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
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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