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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

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
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
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.
HORACE

Home Life Night
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last

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.

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