Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACENor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Gold will be slave or master.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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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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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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