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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
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
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
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
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
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
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

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