Horace Quotes, God Quotes, Humble Quotes

God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

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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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Plant no other tree before the vine.

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Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

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Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

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It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

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It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

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It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

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Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

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Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

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Amiability shines by its own light.

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

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Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

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When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

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