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Half is done when the beginning is done.

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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
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
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
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
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry

Half is done when the beginning is done.

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