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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
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
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
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
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle

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