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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
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Fire Neighbor Wall
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
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.
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Discarde Perceive Return
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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Eye Mind Trust
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Owner Poor Thief

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.

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