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, whenIf it’s your mind, you put off the cure till next year?Who’s started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin!

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, whenIf it’s your mind, you put off the cure till next year?Who’s started has half finished: dare to be wise: begin!

– Horace –

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