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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
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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Authorship Care Write
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Think Wise Write
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
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Face Good Men Sense
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
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Circumstances Endeavor Myself
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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Appreciation Bronze Country People
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
Who’s started has half finished.
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Finish Half Start

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

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