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A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men

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