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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Horace

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
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
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

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

Eye Mind Trust
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
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
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE

Advice Funny Simple Life
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself

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