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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Horace

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

Fern Field Fire Out
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
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
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
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
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
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
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
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
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

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