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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
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
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
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
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
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People

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