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| A child understands fear and the hurt and hate it brings. |
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| A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs... |
| Life |
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| A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. |
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| A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope. |
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| A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers. |
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| A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be. |
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| All philosophy lies in two words: Sustain and Abstain |
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| All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven in his own way. |
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| Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task. |
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| Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. |
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| Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one. |
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| Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. |
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| Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. |
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| Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. |
| Adversity; Difficulty; God |
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| Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well |
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| Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not |
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| First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. |
| Communication |
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| First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. |
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| For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship. |
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