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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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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
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
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy

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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