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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
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
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
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
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Death King Tower
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
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
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year

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