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Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
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
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
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
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
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

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

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