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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Age Fame Luster Virtual Wealth
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself

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