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Keep thy heart afar from sorrow, and be not anxious about the trouble which is not yet come. _Firdausi._ 62. If thy garments be clean and thy heart be foul, thou needest no key to the door of hell. _Sa'di._ 63. We ought never to mock the wretched, for who can be sure of being always happy? _La Fontaine._ 64. To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle. _Sophocles._ 65. Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk. _Plato._ 66. Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure? _Pindar._ 67. A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. _Chinese._ 68. He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober brightens up this world like the moon when freed from clouds. _Dhammapada._ 69. When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack him with malicious slander. _Sa'di._ 70. If a man be not so happy as he desires, let this be his comfort--he is not so wretched as he deserves. _R. Chamberlain._ 71. In conversation humour is more than wit, easiness, more than knowledge; few desire to learn, or to think they need it; all desire to be pleased, or, if not, to be easy. _Sir W. Temple._ 72. The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction. _Tom Browne._ 73. We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good. _Barrow._ 74. The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in ou
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