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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

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
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
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

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

Guest Storm Willing
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
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
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.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
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
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea

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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