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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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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive 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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
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
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief

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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