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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

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
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
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
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
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
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

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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