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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. ↗

— Horace

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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. ↗

— Horace

#alert #arrest #before #carefully #decay

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. ↗

— Horace

#fit #fortune #him #large #like

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

— Horace

#fire #neighbor #wall #your

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. ↗

— Horace

#been #cannot #escape #once #recalled

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. ↗

— Horace

#carvings #durable #foolish #like #quickly

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. ↗

— Horace

#anything #been #conceded #daring #fancy

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

— Horace

#modest person #passes #person #reserved #silent

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? ↗

— Horace

#grasp #harass #mind #purposes #them

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. ↗

— Horace

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