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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

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.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
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.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
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

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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