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A good resolve will make any port.

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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
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
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
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
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
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
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich

A good resolve will make any port.

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