"Observe moderation. In all, the fitting season is best."

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"We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true."

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"Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy."

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"Badness, look you, you may choose easily in a heap: level is the path, and right near it dwells. But before Virtue the immortal gods have put the sweat of man's brow; and long and steep is the way to it, and rugged at the first."

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"Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man."

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"If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great."

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"This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end."

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"On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words."

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"From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love."

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"Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong."

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"Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses."

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"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."

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"Life is short and the art long."

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"What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect."

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"If you wish me to weep, you yourself must feel grief."

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"Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods."

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"You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared-for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus's herd."

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"In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war."

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"The mountains will be in labour; an absurd mouse will be born."

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"Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything and everything is nought."

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"In the name of the Prophet--figs."

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"And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory."

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"A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch."

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"Harry Vane, Pulteney's toad-eater,"

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"The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it."

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"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."

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"England expects every man to do his duty."

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"In the battle off Cape St. Vincent, Nelson gave orders for boarding the "San Josef," exclaiming "Westminster Abbey, or victory!""

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"Hope! thou nurse of young desire."

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"There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sung from morn till night: No lark more blithe than he."

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"Ay, do despise me! I 'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised."

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"Young fellows will be young fellows."

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"And this the burden of his song Forever used to be,-- I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me."

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"Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission."

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"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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"Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 't is their nature too."

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"From all who dwell below the skies Let the Creator's praise arise; Let the Redeemer's name be sung Through every land, by every tongue."

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"A flower, when offered in the bud, Is no vain sacrifice."

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"I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below."

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"Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind 's the standard of the man."

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"There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain."

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"Birds in their little nests agree; And 't is a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight."

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"But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes."

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"How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!"

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"For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do."

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"And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return."

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"So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain."

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"Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see! What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me?"

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"'T is the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, "You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.""

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"Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long!"

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