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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

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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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
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
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
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
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
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
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

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