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

Guest Storm Willing
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
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.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
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.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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
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.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul

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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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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