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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

Horace

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
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
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Guest Storm Willing
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
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Affair Business Other People
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.]
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Death King Tower
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Anger Cut Punishment
Anger is brief madness
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Anger Brief Madness
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Give Labor Life Men
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
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
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
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Increase Money Owner Slave
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
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Arrows Intent Mark People
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness

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