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Anger is brief madness

Horace

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
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.
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Home Life Night
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
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.]
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Authorship Care Write

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