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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
And some condemned for a fault alone.
Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.
Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
One picture is worth ten thousand words.
One picture is worth ten thousand words.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part
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He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part
if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
