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Life gives nothing to man without labor.

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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

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