So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn, If … - Horace

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So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn,
If you don't set your mind on honest aims and pursuits,
On waking, you'll be tortured by envy or lust.
Why so quick to remove a speck from your eye, when
If it's your mind, you put off the cure till next year?
Who's started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin!

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.

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Native Name: Q. Horatius Flaccus

Alternative Names: Quintus Horatius Flaccus • Horatius • Horatius Flaccus

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Cras ingens iterabimus aequor

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

O my brave men! Stout hearts of mine!
who often have suffered worse calamities with me,
Let us now drown your cares in wine.
Tomorrow we venture once again upon the boundless sea.

So, if you don't summon a book and a light before dawn, If you don't set your mind on honest aims and pursuits, On waking, you'll be tortured by envy… - Horace

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