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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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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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
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
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
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

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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