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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Horace

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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
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
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful

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