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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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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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
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
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
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.
HORACE

Home Life Night
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Evil Life Serenity
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy

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