"Youth holds no society with grief."
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"Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven."
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"Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house."
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"Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it."
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"If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning."
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"Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care."
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"When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will."
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"Time will bring healing."
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"Time cancels young pain."
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"Virtue proceeds through effort."
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"A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful."
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"They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears."
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"Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil."
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"The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy)."
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"'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore."
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"Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God."
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"What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw."
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"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."
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"O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!"
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"Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius."
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