"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Life 's but a means unto an end; that end Beginning, mean, and end to all things,--God."

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"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love."

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"America! half-brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land."

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"This many-headed monster."

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"Some undone widow sits upon mine arm, And takes away the use of it; and my sword, Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears, Will not be drawn."

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"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life."

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"A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?""

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"No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief."

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"Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, he has placed at our backs; the other, heavy with those of others, he has hung before."

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"Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example."

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"Things are not always what they seem."

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"Come of it what may, as Sinon said."

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""I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself."

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"That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines."

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"A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse."

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"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."

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"Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief."

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"It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles."

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"By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength."

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"He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own."

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"Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain."

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"Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us."

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"It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one."

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"That possession was the strongest tenure of the law."

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"There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician."

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"There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good."

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"We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again."

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"Men are used as they use others."

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"Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets."

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"Guilty consciences always make people cowards."

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"There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns."

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"What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh."

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"He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses."

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"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain."

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"It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand."

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"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."

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"What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours."

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"Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope."

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"Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired."

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"You are seeking a knot in a bulrush."

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"These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad."

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"Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need."

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"I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock."

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"If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you."

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"To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy."

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"He whom the gods favour dies in youth."

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"In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other."

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"Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only."

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"Each man reaps on his own farm."

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"Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me! Begone, dull Care! thou and I shall never agree."

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