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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
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I have to put up with a lot, to please the touchy breed of poets.
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Tomorrow once again we sail the Ocean Sea.
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This was among my prayers: a piece of land not so very large, where a garden should be and a spring of ever-flowing water near the house, and a bit of woodland as well as these.
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Happy, thrice happy and more, are they whom an unbroken bond unites and whose love shall know no sundering quarrels so long as they shall live.
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Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers.
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The happy state of winning the palm without the dust of racing.
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Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of color.
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It is sensible to dismiss the old horse in good time, lest, failing at the last, he makes the spectators laugh.
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The case will be dismissed with a laugh. You will get off scot-free.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets being second-rate.
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Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
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Taught or untaught, we all scribble poetry.
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Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
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And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
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Pale Death breaks into the cottages of the poor as into the castles of kings.
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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment.
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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
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It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
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Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
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The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.
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None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.
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