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Justice |
| A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Advice |
| A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Adversity |
| A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
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Hospitality |
| A host is like a general: It takes a mishap to reveal his genius.
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Humor |
| A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
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Manners |
| A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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Arts and Artists |
| A picture is a poem without words.
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Vice |
| A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
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Work |
| A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
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Words |
| A word once uttered can never be recalled.
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Adversity |
| Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
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Adversity |
| Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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Happiness |
| And may I live the remainder of my life... for myself; may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!
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Anger |
| Anger is a brief lunacy.
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Anger |
| Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Anger |
| Anger is a short madness.
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Adversity |
| As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
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Gossip |
| Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
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Speakers and Speaking |
| Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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Goals |
| Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Present |
| Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
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Acceptance |
| Better to accept whatever happens.
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Fortune |
| Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
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Future |
| Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Ability |
| Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
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Past |
| Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
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Courage |
| Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
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Money |
| Does he council you better who bids you, "Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
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Poets and Poetry |
| Every old poem is sacred.
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Fortune |
| Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
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Simplicity |
| Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
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Gold |
| Gold will be slave or master.
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Writing and Writers |
| Good sense is both the first principle and the parent source of good writing.
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Action |
| He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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Life and Living |
| He has not lived badly whose birth and death have been unnoticed by the world.
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Innocence |
| He is armed without who is innocent within; be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
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Simplicity |
| He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
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Tomorrow |
| He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
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Action |
| He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
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Deception |
| He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
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Greed |
| He who is greedy is always in want.
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Integrity |
| He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
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Moderation |
| He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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Envy |
| He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
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Humanity |
| Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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Praises and Praising |
| How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
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Economies and Economics |
| How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
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People |
| I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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Death and Dying |
| I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
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Ambition |
| I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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