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Our first teacher is our own heart.
Learn as you'd live forever; live as you'd die tomorrow. It is better to be safe than to be sorry. He that can have patience can have what he will. We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. Fate can be taken by the horns, like a goat, and pushed in the right direction. Variety is the spice of life. If you can't help, don't hinder. A house without books is like a room without windows. You're not supposed to keep religion, it's supposed to keep you. A human learns how to talk early, but how to keep silent late. A life of leisure and a life of laziness are different things. One who cannot respect himself cannot respect another. Fear no man, and do justice to all men. He who can take advice is sometimes superior to those who give it. Though the devil is up early, God is up before him. Every man at his trade. Sweetest pleasures are the shortest. What's said can't be unsaid. Attitudes don't prove anything. Scheming seldom has success. No salary without service. It is a poor rule that will not work both ways. Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time. The passions are like fire and water: good servants but bad masters. You can get far with a lie, but not come back. Never quarrel with one's bread and butter. He that tells a secret is another's servant. Despair never pays any debts. There are many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies. What a man can be is born with him; what he becomes is a result of his environment. Beware the anger of a patient man. Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky. Home is the father's kingdom, the children's paradise, the mother's world. First endure, then pity, then embrace.
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