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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
[ Children ]
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
[ Patience ]
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
[ Change ]
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
[ Fame ]
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
[ Service ]
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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
[ Beginning ]
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He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
[ Self-respect ]
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
[ Failure ]
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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
[ Death and Dying ]
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
[ Perseverance ]
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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
[ Victory ]
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
[ Character ]
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
[ Courtesy ]
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Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
[ Difficulties ]
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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
[ Love ]
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
[ Love ]
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It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
[ Reason ]
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
[ Health ]
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Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
[ Endurance ]
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
[ Love ]
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
[ Ambition ]
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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
[ Language ]
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One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
[ Dreams ]
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Resolve and thou art free.
[ Commitment ]
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
[ Simplicity ]
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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
[ Mistakes ]
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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
[ Affection ]
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
[ Cycles ]
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
[ Firmness ]
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
[ Voice ]
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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
[ Difficulties ]
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
[ Pursuit ]
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The secret anniversaries of the heart.
[ Anniversaries ]
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
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The world loves a spice of wickedness.
[ Wickedness ]
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There is not grief that does not speak.
[ Grief ]
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
[ Illusion ]
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
[ Difficulties ]
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To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
[ Remorse ]
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Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
[ Grief ]
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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
[ Age and Aging ]
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When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
[ Danger ]
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
[ Youth ]
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