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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

Horace

Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

Being Knowledge Wise
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

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

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

Country House People
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People

Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

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