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| Concept: | Activity. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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carpe diem [Latin: sieze the day] (opportunity) [more]; nulla dies sine linea [Pliny]; nec mora nec requies [Vergil]; the plot thickens; No sooner said than done (early); "veni vidi vici" [Suetonius]; catch a weasel asleep; abends wird der Faule fleissig [German]; dictum ac factum [Terence] schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Alter[German: hard work in youth means soft rest in age]; "the busy hum of
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| Antonyms: | inactivity |
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| Concept: | Book. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; written language |
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"among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope]; "I lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]; "look in thy heart and write" [Sidney]; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer Lytton); "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; "volumes
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| Concept: | Business. |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional volition |
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"a business with an income at its heels" [Cowper]; amoto quaeramus seria ludo [Horace]; par negotiis neque supra [Tacitus].
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| Concept: | Duty. |
| Category: | 1. Moral obligations |
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dura lex sed lex; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori; honos habet onus; leve fit quod bene fertur onus [Ovid]; loyauté m'oblige; "simple duty hath no place for fear" [Whittier]; "stern daughter of the voice of God" [Wordsworth]; "there
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| Antonyms: | dereliction of duty |
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| Concept: | Essay. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
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aut non tentaris aut perfice [Ovid]; chi non s'arrischia non guadagna.
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| Concept: | Fashion. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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a la francaise, a la parisienne; a l'anglaise, a l'americaine; autre temps autre mauers; chaque pays a sa guise.
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| Concept: | Record. |
| Category: | 1. Natural Means |
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exegi monumentum aere perennium [Horace]; "read their history in a nation's eyes" [Gray] ; "records that defy the tooth of time" [Young].
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| Antonyms: | obliteration |
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| Concept: | Whole. [Principal part] |
| Category: | 4. CONCRETE QUANTITY |
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tout bien ou rien.
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| Antonyms: | part |
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| Concept: | Writing. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; written language |
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audacter et sincere; le style est l'homme meme; "nature's noblest gift -- my gray goose quill" [Byron]; scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons [Horace]; "that mighty instrument of little men" [Byron]; "the pen became a
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