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" Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. "
Circumstances
Which
Talents
" Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. "
Prosperity
Reveals
Adversity
" A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. "
Honorable
Ever
Faithful
" A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. "
Heart
Change
Adversity
" A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius. "
General
His
Like
" Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. "
Always
Keep
Box
" Anger is a short madness. "
Short
Madness
Anger
" A picture is a poem without words. "
Words
Without
Picture
" A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. "
Pride
Doing
Purpose
" A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them. "
Feet
Trip
Suit
" Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. "
Will
Open
Keep
" A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably. "
Flies
Sent
Word
" A word once uttered can never be recalled. "
Uttered
Recalled
Word
" Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. "
Begin
Bold
Venture
" Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. "
Gift
Whatever
Day
" Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. "
Equal
Shoulders
Choose
" Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. "
Down
Body
Yesterday
" Don't think, just do. "
Just
Think
Motivational
" Every old poem is sacred. "
Old
Poem
Sacred
" Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. "
Path
Time
Run
" Fidelity is the sister of justice. "
Sister
Fidelity
Justice
" Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. "
Too Much
She
Fortune
" Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. "
Good
Writing
Sense
" Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. "
Effort
Plan
Move
" He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. "
Pleasant
Everyone
Approval
" He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. "
World
Been
Birth
" He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. "
Half
Done
Beginning
" He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. "
Brass
Within
Wall
" He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long. "
Words
He
Half
" He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. "
Before
Run
Living
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