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

Horace

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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational 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
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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

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

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