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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.]

Horace

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
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
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
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
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
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

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

Joyful Moment Victory
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires

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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