How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.


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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Success is dependent on effort.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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A human being is only breath and shadow.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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To touch the quick.
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Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger
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Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
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It is God's giving if we laugh or weep
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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God's dice always have a lucky roll
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Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
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It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
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