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A good resolve will make any port.

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

Fern Field Fire Out
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
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
HORACE

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

Greedy Mind Praise
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief

A good resolve will make any port.

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