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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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Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
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.
HORACE

Home Life Night
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
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
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief

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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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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