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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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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
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
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
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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