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Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

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

Think Wise Write
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
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
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect

Never without a shilling in my purse.

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