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A good resolve will make any port.

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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

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

Fern Field Fire Out
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Acquire Flames Strength
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
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
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
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.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
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.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
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
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory

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