Horace Quotes, Heart Quotes, Humanity Quotes

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

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I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

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If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

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Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

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A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]

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What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

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If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

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I am doubting what to do.

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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

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While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

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Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

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Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

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One Sallow does not make Summer.

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