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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
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
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year

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