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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

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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
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
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Death King Tower
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word

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