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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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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
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
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
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
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
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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