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Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
[Guilt]

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Life is warfare.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
[Grief]

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Love of bustle is not industry.
[Work]

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
[Forgiveness]

Man is a social animal.
[Man]

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Men are but children, too, though they have gray hairs; they are only of a larger size.
[Men]

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Men learn while they teach.
[Learning]


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