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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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
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.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
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
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
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People

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