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Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
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
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
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve

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