"Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign."
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"The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home."
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"Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]"
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"It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock."
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"Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]"
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"Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be."
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"Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together."
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"Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect."
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"Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death."
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"Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead."
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"Even pleasure cloys without variety."
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"I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement"
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"It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri."
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"It warms the blood, adds luster to the eyes, and wine and love have ever been allies."
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"Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]"
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"Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly."
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"Love is a kind of warfare."
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"God himself favors the brave."
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"Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own."
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"I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear."
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