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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Horace

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.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
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
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday

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