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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave

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