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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

Horace

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.
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Home Life Night
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
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
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
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
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
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
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Country House People
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

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