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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

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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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
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
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
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
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
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People

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