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There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HORACE

Car Men Wheels
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
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.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
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.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

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