o laughs too much.
_Richter._
48.
The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays
its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth
alone.
_Dante._
49.
This world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot
read it.
_Goldoni._
50.
Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black,
over our heads, hardly gray.
_Richter._
51.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected
without trials.
_Chinese._
52.
Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.
_Dhammapada._
53.
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish
rushing into acts of extravagance.
_Demosthenes._
54.
Let none with scorn a suppliant meet,
Or from the door untended spurn
A dog; an outcast kindly treat;
And so thou shalt be blest in turn.
_Mahabharata._
55.
Choose knowledge, if thou desirest a blessing from the Universal
Provider; for the ignorant man cannot raise himself above the earth,
and it is by knowledge that thou must render thy soul praiseworthy.
_Firdausi._
56.
Good fortune is a benefit to the wise, but a curse to the foolish.
_Chinese._
57.
In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able
to bear adversity and prosperity.
_Philemon._
58.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colourless when
unbroken.
_Longfellow._
59.
There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in
little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality.
_Talmud._
60.
Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at
mediocrity will be far short of it.
_Burmese._
61.
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