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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.]

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.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
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
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
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
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
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.
HORACE

Home Life Night

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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