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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

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Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

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A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

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Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

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Wait, thou child of hope, for Time shall teach thee all things.

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Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.

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Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

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Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

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It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.

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Who can wrestle against Sleep? — Yet is that giant very gentleness.

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Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.

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Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

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Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

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Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

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Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

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If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.

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Clamorous pauperism feasteth
While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.

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Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

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The mines of knowledge are oft laid bare through the forked hazlewand of chance...

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Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.

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Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

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Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day;
And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?

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Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

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I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

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Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

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Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.

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A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection;
And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

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Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

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Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.

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