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“When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.”

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

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The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

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The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

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The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the…

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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

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Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

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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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Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by…

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To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

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