The flowers of life

The flowers of life
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!
  

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Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.
No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom
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The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.
The World is but, a school of inquiry.
Constant repetition carries conviction.
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.