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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
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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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Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!
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Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
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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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Gods should not resemble men in their anger!
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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
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Much effort, much prosperity.
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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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But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
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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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Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
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Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
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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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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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The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.