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Horace

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
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
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave

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