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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
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
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
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
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
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
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
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
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
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

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