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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Seneca the Younger

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think

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