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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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Sweet is a grief well ended.

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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. motivational quotes

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When Character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. inspirational quotes

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'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

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Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

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Exiles feed on hope.

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Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

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For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

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For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

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I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

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In war, truth is the first casualty.

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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

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Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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Of all the Gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of Heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

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The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.

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The memory of pain falls drop by drop upon our heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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The wisest of the wise may err.

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There is adantage in the wisdom won from pain

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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

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When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

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Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

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