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Sweet is a grief well ended.

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God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.
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For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
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The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun.
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Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.
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If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
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The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.
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Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
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