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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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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing

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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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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