This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.


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Don't think, just do.
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Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
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Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
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Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
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Labor diligently to increase your property.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
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He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
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One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
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The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instr...
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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
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Tear thyself from delay.
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Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which c...
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
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Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
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Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
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It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
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Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...
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Anger is a brief lunacy.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Anger is short madness
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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
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We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE
Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE
Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
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A picture is a poem without words.
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
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When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
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Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
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He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
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He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
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We are free to yield to truth.
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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There is nothing assured to mortals.
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If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
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What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
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He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE
I teach that all men are mad.
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He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
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In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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Gold will be slave or master.
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Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
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The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
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He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns up...
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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
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In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
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Buy the rumor and sell the fact
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No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slo...
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The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...
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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of w...
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He who is greedy is always in want.
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
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When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, be...
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he ...
HORACE
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous ...
HORACE
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
HORACE
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
HORACE
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE
Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE
Make a good use of the present.
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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come a...
HORACE
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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The covetous man is ever in want.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
HORACE
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
HORACE
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE
With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
HORACE
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right canno...
HORACE
The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
HORACE
I will not add another word.
HORACE
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out be...
HORACE
Faults are soon copied.
HORACE
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
HORACE
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doi...
HORACE
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HORACE
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE
There is measure in all things.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
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Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
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The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
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Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
HORACE
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
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I shall not altogether die.
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Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
HORACE
Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
HORACE
Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
HORACE
If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine
HORACE
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE
He always hurries to the issue, rushing his readers into the middle of the story as if they knew it ...
HORACE
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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