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• The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

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  Wealth, Wealthy, Possessed

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• Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

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  Future, Men, Worry

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• Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.

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  Faith, Believe, Sight

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• The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

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  Anniversary, Pain, Lions

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• Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.

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  Adversity, Nails, Thee

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• Life is not meant to be hard: if it is, we make it so.

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  Life, Hard, Ifs

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• Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

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  Failure, Opportunity, Being Thankful

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• The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.

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  Life, Problem, Solve

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• As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

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  Talking, Mouths, Honey

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• It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

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  Lightning, Roaring, Silent

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• Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.

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  Experience

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• Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

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  Unhappy, Unhappiness, Unfortunate

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• The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

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  Deception, Knaves, Way

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• It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.

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  Love, Beautiful, Sight

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• Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

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  Lions, Faces, Goddess

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• As the paper though it entereth the press white, yet when it cometh forth black is eagerly sought to be perused; so do thou let thy life, though darkened by adversity, be made all the more useful to thy fellows.

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  Adversity, White, Black

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• The best excuse is to have none.

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  Excuse

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• The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.

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  Lightning, Gone, Thunder

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• Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

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  Experience, Ifs

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• For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.

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  Love, Headache, Guillotine

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• For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• It needs as much generosity to take as to give.

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  Generosity, Giving, Needs

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• Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

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  Men, Luxury, Doubt

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