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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Horace

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
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
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.
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Men Poetry Rate
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
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
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
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Joy Laughter Love People
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
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
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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First Money Wealth
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
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.
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Last Poverty Wing

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