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• If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

  Horace

  Envy, Silence, Crow

  "Epistles", I. 17. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 690-91, 1922.

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• To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

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  Men, Favour, Court

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• They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

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  Travel, Happy Life, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 11. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 809-11, 1922.

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• Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

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  Thinking, Years, Heaven

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• 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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  Endeavour, Circumstances

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• Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

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  Sea, Hug, Storm

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• Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

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  Death, Matter, Boundaries

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.262

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• Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

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  Heaven, May, Posse

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• Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

  Horace

  Friends, Wise, Kings

  Horace (1709). “Horace: Of the Art of Poetry: A Poem”, p.17

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• Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

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  Literature, Sullen, Modesty

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• Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

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  Death, Running, Law

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• Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
  [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

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  Mean, Envy, Tutus

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• Punishment follows close on crime.

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  Punishment, Crime

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 649-652, Carmina, IV. 5. 24, 1922.

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• Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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  Literature, Matter, Failing

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• What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

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  Anger, Cutting, Punishment

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• Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

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  Cutting, Failing, Knots

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• Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

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  Ocean, Heart, Firsts

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.5

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• Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

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  Ridicule, Employed, Severity

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• My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

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  Age, Inclination

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• The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

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  Art, Greek, Genius

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• Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

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  Wall, Faults, Sides

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• Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

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  Opportunity, May, Lasts

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• Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice,
  Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.

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  Gambling, Soul, Venture

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• Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

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  Eagles, Fierce, Dove

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• Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

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  Evil, Pluck

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