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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
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
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Country House People
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

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