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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

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