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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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
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
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men

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