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Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
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
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
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
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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