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Remember to be calm in adversity.

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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
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
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
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Death King Tower
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
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
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
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
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge

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