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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
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
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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