We live as we die, and die as we live.
Prejudice is the glass through which most things are seen and judged.
Youth is often a scoffer at destiny.
Education and time may improve and augment the uses of truth, but cannot alter the structure, which is ever the same--as proceeding from the Eternal.
He who looks for great power searches for perils.
Words frequently surrender power to the opposer.
If you speak not, you cannot speak evil.
Reasons are the pillars of the mind.
Time admits no argument.
Time is an impartial distributor.
Death ends at last the fear of it.
Worldly happiness is like a golden palace, but with no entrance.
Ignorance is often the blindness of the soul.
Satisfaction is a good tenant of hope.
Health will generally attend thee well if thou attend it well.
The proof of words are sometimes the effect of them on others; words are not proofs without effect.
Posterity is the great court of judgment.
Truth is the substance of the soul.
Truth makes all things beautiful.
Truth, like good medicine, is oftentimes repugnant to our present feelings, but gives vigour afterwards.
Order lives in chaos.
Friends mostly test other's prosperity by their own; all wealth is but comparison of wealth.
Opinions, like weapons, are often made for defense as well as offense.
A good knowledge of things past is an armour against events to come.
Reason often overturns experience.
The strongest may have need of more strength.
If we neglect conscience, most evils are possible.
He deserves to be fortune's favorite who can use her gifts with an even hand.
We are generally either near or far from danger.
Truth rides a long road.
Youth is but an insecure custodian.
The steps of power are often steps on sand.
Success is ever a bad tree when evil is the root.
Gold gathers more than a shovel.
Evil is the plague of the soul.
Great increase of prosperity sometimes weakens the supports of it.
Pity is often an eloquent advocate.
Praise increases where the excellence is attained but by few.
Money spent withdraws its charm.
The greatest trespasser on justice still wishes it done to him.
Gold often commends the unworthy.
That which is not formed of truth is of bad texture.
Envy generally admires and abhors out of proportion.
Envy wealth for its power of good, not ill.
Life is but a field which we soon travel over, and the vale of eternity presents itself.
Happiness is the soul in peace.
Fortune may flatter us, but she herself is not to be flattered.
Necessity often has a brow of despair.
Ideas are the pulses of the soul.
Order is the framer of great things.
War is a severe doctor; but it sometimes heals grievances.
Promises are like fortune's shadows.
Destiny is the essence of worldly powers.
Wisdom is the never-failing granary of thought.
Hope is the beacon which points to prosperity.
Death is a creditor that is never ignored.
Wants, like birds, flutter till they have found a place of rest.
We disgrace wisdom when we would strive to support it with folly.
Fortune hath many roads.
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