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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Horace

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
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
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
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
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
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
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men

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