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

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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
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
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
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People

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

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