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The only certainty is uncertainty

Pliny the Elder

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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Deep Dream Effect Hard Work Impossible Inspiring Motivation Success
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Adversity Courage Creativity Fear Grief Happen Overcome
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Country Friendship Generous Man Myself
….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Adaptation Adopt Causes Grab Moral Opportunity Selfish
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Birth Doe Expression Life Men Naked Nude
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Emotion Exercise Improvement Land Patience Positive Seed
No one is wise at all times.
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Attempt Hope Life One Liner Patience Positive Task Time Try Wisdom Wise
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Birth Deep Emotion Grant Happy Laughter Men Soul Zeal
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Body Enemy Foe Lust Mind Person Purse Weakness
When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Collapse Flee Latin Little One Liner Rodent Small Tiny
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Agree Agriculture Do Emotion Hope Inspiring Maximum Motivation Opportunity Practise
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Country Decline Manhood Ourselves Youth
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Bad Book Goodness Literature
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Born Disease Dish Meat Shine Simple Worse
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Charm Object Possession Pursuit

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