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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
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
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth

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