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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus

Happy, Away, Desires

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield

Art, Wisdom, Wise

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph Addison

Love, Pain, Live

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe

Beauty, Art, Evening

Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn

Beauty, Marriage, Money

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Horace

Money, Mistress

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam

Life, Wise, Today

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Love, Leave, Rose

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'
Sophocles

Justice, Democracy, Keep

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller

Wife, Thy, Conquest

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Thomas Fuller

Nice, Making, Promises

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller

Art, Sometimes, Blind

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
Akhenaton

Art, Happy, Wise

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Time, Failure, Though

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides

Progress, Tongue, Teach

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne

Art, Death, Die

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison

Age, Nature, Sun

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
Muhammad Iqbal

Time, Another, Days

Resolve and thou art free.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art, Free, Resolve

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Earth, Seen, Changes

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
Virgil

Human, Gold, Hearts

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
William Penn

Conquer, Weakness, Thy

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Ovid

Body, Water, Unless

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede

Knowledge, Wisdom, Words

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
Jack Kerouac

Car, Night, America

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
Homer

Best, Keep, High

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
Robert Browning

God, Art, Single

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Democritus

True, Injustice, Suffer

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