Time reveals all things.
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Time softens animosity.
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'Tis folly to love fetters, though they be of gold.
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'Tis gold
Which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief;
Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what
Can it not do, and undo?
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'Tis wisdom sometimes to seem a fool.
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To be in love and act wisely is scarcely granted to a god.
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To be loved, be loveable.
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To conceal disease is fatal.
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To condemn by a cutting laugh comes easily to all.
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To do a favour slowly is to begrudge it; to consent slowly shows
unwillingness.
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To do good to the ungrateful is to throw rose-water into the sea.
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To every one who doth ask, but not everything he doth ask.
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To have been silent never does harm, but to have spoken does.
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To have no wants, is money.
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To him that hath much, shall much be given.
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To know nothing is the happiest life.
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To obtain that which is just we must ask that which is unjust.
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To relax the mind is to lose it.
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To remove the hairs from a horse's tail, one by one must be
plucked out. [Small persevering efforts succeed, when violent
measures would fail.]
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To silence another, first be silent yourself.
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To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
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To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest
in creation.
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To the pure all things are pure.
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To understand a stammerer, you ought to stammer yourself.
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To whom is he any good, if he is no good to himself?
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