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• One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

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  Writing, Editing, Gains

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• Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

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  Ridicule, Employed, Severity

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• In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken.
  [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

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  Death, Names

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• No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

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  Men, Duty

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• They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

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  Travel, Happy Life, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 11. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 809-11, 1922.

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• Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

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  Wealth, Fortune, Nameless

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• Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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  Literature, Sullen, Modesty

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• Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

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  Heaven, May, Posse

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• Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

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  Anger, Men, Literature

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• Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
  [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

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  Mean, Envy, Tutus

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• Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

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  Pain, Pleasure, Despise

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• Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

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  Envy, Competition, Crow

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• If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

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  Envy, Silence, Crow

  "Epistles", I. 17. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 690-91, 1922.

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• Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

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  Light, Confusion, Obscure

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• He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

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  Hard Work, Brain, Nails

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• To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

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  Men, Favour, Court

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• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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• A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

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  Humor, Matter, Jest

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• Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

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  Enough, Sufficiency, Asks

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 133-36, Epistles, I. 2. 46, 1922.

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• What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

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  Country, Country Love, Able

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 141-42, Carmina II. 16. 19, 1922.

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• Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

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  Strong, Freedom, 4th Of July

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• Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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  Literature, Matter, Failing

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• I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

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  Home, Sunset, Mind

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• Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip.
  [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

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  Punishment, Terrible, Pursue

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• All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

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  Men, Opinion, Fine

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 569-70, Epistles, II. 2. 58, 1922.

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