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• Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
• Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
• Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should…
• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his…
• For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness…
• One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the…
• From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
• Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
• He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
• A closed mouth catches no flies.
• Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
• It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

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