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My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.
Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
Half the world knows not how the other half lies.
A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.
An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
The first revolution is when you change your mind
We all can dance when we find music that we love.
My, how beautiful is war! its songs, its leisure!
Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.
Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.
Each man's life represents a road toward himself.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
We should try to be happy, just to set an example
If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.
A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world!
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.
How fragile we are, between the few good moments.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart.
People must help one another; it is nature's law.
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?