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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
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
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
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
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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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Country Half Happen People
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires

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