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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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Country House People
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
A man perfect to the finger tips.
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Finger Men Perfect
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

Fault Imperfection Poetry
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
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last

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