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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

Horace

Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
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
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
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

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

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