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The nurselings of avarice have but a short time to stay.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

You need not seek twice for the rose already withered.

In being modest there is a slight tone of servility.

He who violates another's honor loses his own.

The friendship than can come to an end, never really began.

What it is right to do, should be done at the right time.

Do not seek for that which you would be ashamed to find.

The woman too anxious to seem fair, cannot say No.

Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.

How oppressive is the weight of an evil conscience!

How happy the life unembarassed [sic] by the cares of business!

How great a matter is it to deserve praise, though we do not receive it!

How vile is he who charges his own offenses upon others!

How much to be pitied is he, who has no p