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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
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A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.
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For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.
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Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.
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Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
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How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
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Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.
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What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.
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It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
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There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
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The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
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Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.
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Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.
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The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
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In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
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Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.
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To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
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The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
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If the gods do evil then they are not gods.