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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
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
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
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Death King Tower
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
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write

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