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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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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
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
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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Death King Tower
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
Nor 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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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
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
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

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

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