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A good resolve will make any port.

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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
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
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
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills

A good resolve will make any port.

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