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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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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

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

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
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.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower

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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