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

Horace

Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
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
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity

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