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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.

Horace

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
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
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.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Mistake Ridiculous Same
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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Brain Hard Work Nail

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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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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