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Punishment follows close on crime.

Horace

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
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.
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Last Poverty Wing
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.
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Discarde Perceive Return
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
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
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
One cannot know everything.
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Everything Know Knowledge
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious

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