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In critical junctures, temerity is wont to take the place of prudence.

An hour sometimes restores us the sum of many years [sic] losses.

Glory is apt to follow when industry has prepared the road.

Our lives are apt to be meaner than our births.

There is hope of improvement so long as a man is alive to shame.

Hope is the solace of poverty, money of avarice, death of misery.

The sight of a thorn is pleasant when there is a rose by its side.

Fools stand in dread of fortune, wise men bear it.

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

Prosperity sometimes exhibits a little folly.

Only fools commit the error which might have been avoided.

It is folly to take the uncertain for the certain.

It is foolish to complain of the misfortunes which have come to pass through your own fault.

It is folly to dread what cannot be avoi