But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.


Horace Mann

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Tear thyself from delay.
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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
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Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
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It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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Patience makes lighter
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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
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Anger is a brief lunacy.
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Anger is short madness
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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
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We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
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Every old poem is sacred.
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Poets wish to profit or to please.
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
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The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
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A picture is a poem without words.
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
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When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they wi...
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He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
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We are free to yield to truth.
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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
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Or the fro...
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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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There is nothing assured to mortals.
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If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
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I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
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What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
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He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
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I teach that all men are mad.
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He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
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In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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Gold will be slave or master.
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Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
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The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
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He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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