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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Country House People
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
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
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness

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