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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
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
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
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
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

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

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