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Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
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.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
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.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
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
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible

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