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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

Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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Adversity Inspirational Motivational
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
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Grief Limit Men
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self

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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