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Anger is brief madness

Horace

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
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
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
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
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People

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