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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Horace

Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
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Men Time Year
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
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
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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Enjoy God Mean Wealth
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
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Half Job Sensible
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Exercise Health Try
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
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
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
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

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