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God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
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A blue eye is a true eye Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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Laws are the silent assessors of God.
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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
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Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
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Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
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In the nine heavens are eight Paradises Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
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The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
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