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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

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
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
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
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
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
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
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.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength

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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