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Horace

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
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
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
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
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
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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