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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

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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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
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
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

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