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5714 Poet Quotes

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Giving Good Taking Bad
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False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

False shame Poor Harms Greatly
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Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better

Wealth Seized God given
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Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

Give birth Mischievous Children lives
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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Little Soon Would become Big
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Entire city Suffered Evil man
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Never make a companion equal to a brother.

Never make Companion Brother
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When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

When you Deal Your brother Pleasant
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Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Acquisition Means life Mortals
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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Speak Many falsehoods Real things
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Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Fleeing marriage Sorrows Women
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Best Do things Systematically Human
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Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
Whoever Trusted Woman Deceivers
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace

Works Disgrace Idleness
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A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

Bad neighbor Calamity Good Great advantage
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Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Happy Man Muses love Sweet speech
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Begin Be bold Venture Wise
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Rule Mind You
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He who is greedy is always in want

Who is Greedy Always In want
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In love there are two evils: war and peace.

In love Evil War Peace
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Anger is a brief madness.
Anger.brief madness
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone
Wisdom When Derived Books alone
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A picture is a poem without words.

Picture Poem Words
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Adversity Effect Eliciting talents Lain dominant
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Once A world Escape Recalled
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Always Slave Live Little
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

Without love Laughter Joy Live
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Whatever advice you give, be brief.

Whatever advice Be brief
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He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Who feared Not succeed sat still
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Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

Virtue Dear friend Guilt created Fear
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Even as we speak, time speeds swiftly away.
Time Time speeds Swiftly away
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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.

Mingle Little folly Wisdom Pleasant
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Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.
Leave off Asking Tomorrow Will bring
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In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

Peace Wise man Suitable preparation
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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Subdue Your passion You
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Fortune makes Fool Favors
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Then come at once and pause for breath In chasing wealth. Remembering death And death's dark fires, mix, while you may, Method and madness, work and play. Folly is sweet, well-timed.

Come Breath Chasing wealth Remembering death
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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.

Man Tenacious Purpose Firm
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.life.

Remember Life's path Mind Life
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Humour is often stronger and more effective than sharpness in cutting knotty issues.

Humour Stronger Effect Sharpness
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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
Make money Fair means
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This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist.

Fault common Singers Friends Inclined
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He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

Through life Master Happy man
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Either stick to tradition or see that your inventions be consistent.

Stick Tradition Invention Be consistent
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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Words Accents Grief Assuaged
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Of writing well, be sure, the secret lies In wisdom :therefore study to be wise.

Writing well Secret Wisdom Be wise
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Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Think Yourself Every day Last
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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Life Grants nothing Hard work
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It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.

Enough Poem Beautiful Affecting
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As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

We speak Fleeing Believing
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