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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.

Horace

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
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
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
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise

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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