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• Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

  Horace

  Corn, Grind, Eating

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Satires, I. 1. 45, 1922.

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• Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

  Horace

  Father, Oxen, Agriculture

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• Poets wish to profit or to please.

  Horace

  Wish, Literature, Poet

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

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• With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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  Self, Discipline, Mind

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• The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

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  Inspirational, Welcome, Hours

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• The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

  Horace

  Light, Now And Then

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• Make a good use of the present.

  Horace

  Time, Use, Time Management

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• Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

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  Greed, Care, Wealth

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

  Horace

  Politics, Common, Economy

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• Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

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  Latin, Wrinkles, Years

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• For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

  Horace

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  "Epistles" by Horace, Book II. 1. 262,

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• Don't waste the opportunity.

  Horace

  Latin, Opportunity, Waste

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• Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

  Horace

  Liars, Alarms, Doe

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• He, that holds fast the golden mean,
  And lives contentedly between
  The little and the great,
  Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
  Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
  Imbitt'ring all his state.

  Horace

  Mean, Men, Doors

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

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  Health, Exercise, Trying

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• Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

  Horace

  Littles, Nonsense, Now And Then

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• The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

  Horace

  Latin, Bulls, Horns

  Horace, (2016). “The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace”, p.249, Princeton University Press

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• Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

  Horace

  Mountain, Lightning, Strikes

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

  Horace

  Men, Remember, Ridicule

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• It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

  Horace

  Wall, Fire, Neighbor

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle xviii, line 84, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

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• I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

  Horace

  Political, Fickle, Politics

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, I. 19. 37,

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• He is not poor who has a competency.

  Horace

  Poor, Competencies

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• A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

  Horace

  Travel, Shoes, Feet

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• No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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  Food, Water, Long

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• Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

  Horace

  May, Too Much, Fly Away

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