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

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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
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
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy

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

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