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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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Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
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
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
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
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
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant

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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