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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
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
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
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
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
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 would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

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