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If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind; our best hours escape us, the worst are to come.
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Business that is ready and practicable goes off with ease; but when it is too heavy for the bearer, they fall both together.
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Fortune lashes and mangles us: well, let us endure it: it is not cruelty, it is a struggle, in which the oftener we engage the braver we shall become.
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Misfortunes press hardest on those who are unacquainted with them: the yoke feels heavy to the tender neck.