To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACETake as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
More Horace Quotes
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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A good resolve will make any port.
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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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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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One cannot know everything.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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