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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

Horace

Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
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
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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
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
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
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
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

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