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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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Goal Horizon Live Success Yourself
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Husband Marriage One Liner Wife
Humor is wit and love.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Custom Exception Habit Live Motivational
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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Fools Man Wisdom Yourself
Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Comparison Easy Hard Leaving Oneself
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Generosity Greeting Life Mirror Return Smile Yourself
Pray God, keep us simple.
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God Prayer Simplicity
Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Destiny One Liner Sport
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Diamond Life Reality
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Himself Lying Man Pen Thinking Writing
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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Action Feeling

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