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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
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

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