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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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Fault Imperfection Poetry
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
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
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country 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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
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
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise

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