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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

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