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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
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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Aim Brevity Obscure
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
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
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
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
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious

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