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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.

Horace

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
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
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.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
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.
HORACE

Home Life Night
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start

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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