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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
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
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
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
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return
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
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People

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