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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

Home Life Night
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
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
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
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
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

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

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