There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
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If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
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