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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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A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
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
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
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
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
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
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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Fate Hand Name
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter

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