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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
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
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
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
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
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
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
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.
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Owner Poor Thief

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