Horace Quotes, Fall Quotes, Grief Quotes

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

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Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

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In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

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Leave the rest to the gods.

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Live mindful of how brief your life is.

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To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

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Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

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The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

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Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

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When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

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I want to live, and die with you.

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Anger is brief madness

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The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.

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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

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A man perfect to the finger tips.

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A picture is a poem without words

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