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

Grief Limit Men
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
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
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
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.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail

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