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The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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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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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
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Pleasure bought with pain does harm.
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For, once begun, Your task is easy half the work is done.
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Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]
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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
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Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
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When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
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Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]
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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
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Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
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Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds High towers fall with a heavier crash And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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