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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

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Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

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He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

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Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

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Limbs of a dismembered poet.

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He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .

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Life gives nothing to man without labor.

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There is measure in all things.

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Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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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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From the egg to the apple.

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To grow a philosopher's beard.

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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

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He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

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The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

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Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

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