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Half is done when the beginning is done.

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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
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
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
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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Discarde Perceive Return
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle

Half is done when the beginning is done.

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