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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

Horace

Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

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