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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
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
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
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 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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
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

Gold will be slave or master.

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