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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

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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Fate Hand Name
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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Home Life Night
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Military Venture Wise
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
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Authorship Care Write
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
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
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.
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Last Poverty Wing
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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Being Knowledge Wise
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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Judge Justice Life Umpires

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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