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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
A fool and his words are soon parted.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
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