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Horace

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.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Depress People Think
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Birth Fall Joy Note
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
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Motivational Positive Wise
Gold will be slave or master.
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Gold Master People Slave
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
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
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Joyful Moment Victory
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People

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