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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.

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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
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
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
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
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy

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.

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