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Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
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A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
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The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.
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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
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Courage is the gift of character.
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What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
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No one is happy all his life long.
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Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
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To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
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Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.
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Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
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If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.
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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
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Dead men have no victory.
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Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
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Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.
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Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.
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When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.
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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
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The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
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All men know their children mean more than life.
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A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.
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