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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Mind Spill Superfluous
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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Day Morrow Seize Trust
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
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Home Life Night
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Greedy Mind Praise
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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Conceited Race Self
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment

Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.

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