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Being, be bold and venture to be wise.

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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen 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
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
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

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