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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

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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
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
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
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea

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