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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

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

Think Wise Write
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
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.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate

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