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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

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