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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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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
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
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
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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