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He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Constant popping off of proverbs will make thee a byword thyself.
Ho can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon, Apple Valley to Boreal, New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
You can always tell a German, but you can't tell him much.
Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening.
Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time
I am being carried on great wings across the sky.
May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you take be the bitterest cup of sorrow.
May you die without benefit of clergy;
May there be none to shed a tear at your grave, and may the hearthstone of hell be your best bed forever.