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A docile disposition will, with application, surmount every difficulty. - [Docility] Being born, we die; our end is consequent on our beginning. - [Birth] Every one is the poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not. - [Want] Everyone is in a small way the image of God. - [God] It is shameful for a man to live as a stranger in his own country, and to be uninformed of her affairs and interests. - [Solitude] There is a warp of evil woven in the woof of good. - [Goodness] We are dying from our very birth, and our end hangs on our beginning. - [Death] It is easy to spread the sails to propitious winds, and to cultivate in different ways a rich soil. and to give lustre to gold and ivory, when the very raw material itself shines. [Lat., Facile est ventis dare vela secudis, Fecundumque solum varias agitare per artes, Auroque atque ebori decus addere, cum rudis ipsa Materies niteat.] - Astronomica (3) [Success] Everything that is created is changed by the laws of man; the earth does not know itself in the revolution of years; even the races of man assume various forms in the course of ages. [Lat., Omnia mortali mutantur lege creata, Nec se cognoscunt errae vertentibus annis, Et mutant variam faciem per saecula gentes.] - Astronomica (515) [Change] All tings obey fixed laws. [Lat., Certis . . . legibus omnia parent.] - Astronomica (I, 479) [Law] No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open. [Lat., Rationi nulla resistunt. Claustra nec immense moles, ceduntque recessus: Omnia succumbunt, ipsum est penetrabile coelum.] - Astronomica (I, 541) [Mind] The hours fly around in a circle. [Lat., Volat hora per orbem.] - Astronomica (I, 641) [Time] Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. [Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.] - Astronomica (I, 90) [Experience] Who can know heaven except by its gifts? and who can find out God, unless the man who is himself an emanation from God? [Lat., Quis coelum possit nisi coeli munera nosse? Et reperire deum nisi qui pars ipse deorum est?] - Astronomica (II, 115) [God] Time stands with impartial law. [Lat., Aequo stat foedare tempus.] - Astronomica (III, 360) [Time] Labor is itself a pleasure. [Lat., Labor est etiam ipsa voluptas.] - Astronomica (IV, 155) [Labor] We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning [Lat., Nascentes morimur, finiaque ab origine pendet.] - Astronomica (IV, 16) [Death] Every one is in a small way the image of God. [Lat., Exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva.] - Astronomica (IV, 895) [God] We are always beginning to live, but are never living. - Astronomica (IV, 899) [Life]
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