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A good resolve will make any port.

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What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country 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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
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

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