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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
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
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
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
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
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
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
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today

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