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Horace

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
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
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
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
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit 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.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet

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