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Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

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Silence, Causes, Silent

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

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Agriculture, Fields, Cultivation

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

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Soil, Forget, Homesickness

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

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Time, Feet, Rapids

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

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Years, Taught, Prison

My intention is to tell of bodies changed into new forms.

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Change, Body, Intention

It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

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Life, Safe, Reign

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

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Judging, Facts, Duty

That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.

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Light, Cheerfulness, Load

Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

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Beauty, Heaven, Boast

Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

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Poetry, Mind, Fine
Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1299, Delphi Classics

She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

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Husband, Matrimony, Wells
Ovid (1808). “Ovid's Epistles. Translated into English verse by various authors. To which is prefixed the Life of Ovid”, p.131

It is good to be taught even by an enemy

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Enemy, Taught

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

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Beauty, Years, Frail

Few love what they may have.

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Love, Appreciation, May

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

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Art, Faithful, Study

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

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Law, Plot, Murder

Everything changes, nothing is lost.

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Things Change, Lost

Love is a believing creature.

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Love, Believe, Heart

For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

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Believe, May, Common

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

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Beauty, Modesty, Strife

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

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Guilt, Difficult, Betray

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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Poetry, Letters, Jest

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

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Marriage, Memories, Equal

A woman is always buying something.

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Funny, Buying Something, Buying

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