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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
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
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
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
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
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
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

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