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

Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
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
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.
HORACE

Home Life Night
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

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

Fern Field Fire Out
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
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

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

Admiration Lost Mean
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same

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