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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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
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
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs

There is a middle ground in things.

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