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.]

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive 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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter

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