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    Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

    Today | Greatest | Tomorrow


    You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

    Wish


    All art is but imitation of nature.

    Art | Nature | Imitation


    Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

    Kindness | Wherever


    A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

    Fear | Danger | Hand


    A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

    Birthday | Gift | Intention


    Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

    Work | God | Conflict


    We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

    Today | Night | Temptation


    He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

    Rule | Dreads | Hostility


    Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

    Veterans Day | War | Men


    If you wished to be loved, love.

    Love | Loved | Wished


    One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

    Friendship


    True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

    Strong | Praise | False


    While we are postponing, life speeds by.

    Life | Speeds


    He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

    Crime | Prevent | Encourages


    Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

    Religion | Wise | False


    A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

    Brainy | Friction | Gem


    If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

    Business | Sailing


    It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

    Great | Greatness | Road


    The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

    Anger | Greatest | Delay


       

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