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| A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor |
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| A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two |
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| A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands |
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| A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty |
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| Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by |
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| All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness |
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| All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up |
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| All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. |
| Laughter; Tears |
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| Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. |
| Anger |
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| Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it |
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| Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ·That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns. |
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| Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. |
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| Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it |
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| As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasur |
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| As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. |
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| As long as you live, keep learning how to live. |
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| As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit. |
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