For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Sweet is a grief well ended.
Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
But let the good prevail.
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.
When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.
It is through suffering that learning comes.
Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.
For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
The reward of suffering is experience
Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
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