Aphorisms
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Cunning is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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