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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen 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
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love 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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Fault Imperfection Poetry
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
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

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

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