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One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

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Half is done when the beginning is done.

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Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

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Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

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Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

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Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

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Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

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All things considered, nothing is beautiful.

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However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

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When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

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In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

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It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

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Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

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The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

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The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.

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Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

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Mistakes are their own instructors

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