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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
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.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try

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