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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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What is true belongs to me!
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.