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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue

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