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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
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Degrees Last Men
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self

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