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Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson

Actions speak louder than words.

Popular culture

Don't cry over spilled milk.

Popular culture

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Sun Tzu, Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo

Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

Know thyself.

Ancient Greek maxim (associated with Socrates and Plato)

Appearances can be deceiving.

Popular Culture (variously attributed, including Aesop's Fables)

Give me liberty, or give me death!

Patrick Henry

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde