In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACEWhen evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
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Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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