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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

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Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

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