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.]

Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
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Difficulty Intervention Worthy
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
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
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Admiration Lost Mean
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Country Opportunity People Waste
Never without a shilling in my purse.
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Emotion People Purse Shilling
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
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.
HORACE

Perfect Perfect Happiness
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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Fall Peace War

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