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Half is done when the beginning is done.

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

Fern Field Fire Out
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
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
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
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.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self

Half is done when the beginning is done.

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