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Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.
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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
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The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
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Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.
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But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
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The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.
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Gods should not resemble men in their anger!
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Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
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Much effort, much prosperity.
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Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
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I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.
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The childless escape much misery.
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Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.
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Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
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This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
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It would not be better if men got what they wanted.
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Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.