How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACESapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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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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By the favour of the heavens
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Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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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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Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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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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It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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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.
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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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