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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

Horace

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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Fault Imperfection Poetry
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.]
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Death King Tower
There is a middle ground in things.
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Ground Latin Middle
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 a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
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
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
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
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
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires
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

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

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