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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
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
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut 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

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