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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
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
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
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
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
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 it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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