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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.

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God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

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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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It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

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I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

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Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

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Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

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Labor diligently to increase your property.

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That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

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A man perfect to the finger tips.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

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We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

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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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Small things become small folks.

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One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

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I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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In my integrity I'll wrap me up.

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