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Absence, that common cure of love.
Topic: Absence
Source: None
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
Topic: Action
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Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
Topic: Actions
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Fair and softly goes far.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Topic: All About the Self
Source: None
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
Topic: Bragging
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Topic: Caution
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To be prepared is half the victory.
Topic: Consistency
Source: None
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Topic: Cowardice
Source: None
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Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Topic: Cowards
Source: None
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Topic: Diligence
Source: None
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
Topic: Existence
Source: None
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By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
Topic: Future
Source: None
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Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
Topic: Giants
Source: None
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Topic: History
Source: None
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Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.
Topic: Humanity
Source: None
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That which costs little is less valued.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
Topic: Jest
Source: None
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Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
Topic: Literary
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'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. - Don Quixote.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Topic: Luck
Source: None
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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Topic: Negativity
Source: None
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Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Topic: Politics / Government
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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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That which costs little is less valued.
Topic: Value
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Topic: Wealth
Source: None
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Topic: Wickedness
Source: None
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