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Horace

Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
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
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
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.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity

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