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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

Horace

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.)
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Men Time Year
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
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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Fault Imperfection Poetry
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
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.
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Discarde Perceive Return
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise

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