“Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.”
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“That best of blessings, a contented mind.”
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“Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.”
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“What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.”
Source: Horace: The Epistles, book I-II. The Art of poetry. Appendix, containing translations of various odes, &c