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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

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If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

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All objects lose by too familiar a view.

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Honor is but an empty bubble.

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

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When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

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Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

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