I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Aeschylus
In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
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Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety
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Time as he grows old teaches all things.
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Time brings all things to pass.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of deathand the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief, the curse no man can bear. But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no, not from others but from them, their bloody strife. We sing to you, dark gods beneath the earth. Now hear, you blissful powers underground --answer the call, send help. Bless the children, give them triumph now.
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And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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