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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
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
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
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
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
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

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