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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.

Horace

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
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
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible

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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