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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

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One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
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
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
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
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

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

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