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The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good read more
The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,
and about two years after he thinks read more
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,
and about two years after he thinks he does.
Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly
regret what is already past.
Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly
regret what is already past.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered read more
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your
arms too full to embrace the read more
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your
arms too full to embrace the present.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free and was never read more
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
You can't choose up sides on a round world.
You can't choose up sides on a round world.