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When disposition wins us, the features please.

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Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso
P. Ovidius Naso
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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God himself helps those who dare.
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Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!
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They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]
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It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.
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Little things please little minds.
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We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]
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The battle is over when the foe has fallen.
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Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.
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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.
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You start in April and cross to the time of May One has you as it leaves, one as it comes Since the edges of these months are yours and defer To you, either of them suits your praises. The Circus continues and the theatre's lauded palm, Let this song, too, join the Circus spectacle.
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Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.
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