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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.


Horace Walpole

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HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
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HORACE He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HORACE Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
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HORACE Labor diligently to increase your property.
HORACE Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who...
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
HORACE Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. HORACE Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
HORACE Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
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HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
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HORACE While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
HORACE Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
HORACE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
HORACE Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless...
HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HORACE It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
HORACE Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
HORACE Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
HORACE Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
HORACE You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
HORACE The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...
HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
HORACE Anger is short madness
HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be short.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
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HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
HORACE How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
HORACE He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving ot...
HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
HORACE To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
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HORACE He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
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HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
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The citizens burning to approve a wrong
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HORACE Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE There is nothing assured to mortals.
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HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
HORACE I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
HORACE Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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