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• That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

  Horace

  Life, Past, Men

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• It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

  Horace

  Country, Sweet, Patriotic

  Horace (1908). “Horace: Quintus Horatius Flaccus ... the Roman Poet Presented to Modern Readers”

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• One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

  Horace

  Latin, Wicked, Laziness

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• Limbs of a dismembered poet.

  Horace

  Latin, Poet, Limbs

  Satires bk. 1, no. 4, l. 62

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• I am doubting what to do.

  Horace

  Latin, Doubt

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• When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

  Horace

  Teacher, Teaching, Lessons

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• If a better system's thine,
  Impart it frankly, or make use of mine.

  Horace

  Use, Mines, Impart

  "The works of Horace".

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• Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

  Horace

  Death, Dark, Needs

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

  Horace

  Grief, Joy, Morrow

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

  Horace

  Mind, Enough, Charm

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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• A crafty knave needs no broker.

  Horace

  Needs, Knaves, Crime

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• Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

  Horace

  Despair, Guidance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 189-90, Carmina, I, 7, 27, 1922.

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• I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

  Horace

  Fear, Footprint, Dens

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Epistles, I. 1. 74, 1922.

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• Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

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  Overflow, Bosoms, Superfluous

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Ars Poetica, 337, 1922.

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• Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

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  Men, Car, Wheels

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 313-14, Satires, I. 6. 23, 1922.

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• What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

  Horace

  Grief, Men, Limits

  "Carmina" by Horace, I. 24. 1,

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• Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

  Horace

  Men, Poetry, Rate

  'Ars Poetica' l. 372

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• That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

  Horace

  Giving, Poetry, Pleasure

  'Odes' bk. 4, no. 3, l. 24

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• Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

  Horace

  Mind, Spills, Superfluous

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• Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

  Horace

  Night, Men, Bravery

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 82-83, Odes, Book IV, IX. 25, 1922.

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• Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

  Horace

  Obscure, Brevity

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• The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.
  [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

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  Change, Horse, Lazy

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• However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

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  Names, Desire, Imperfect

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• Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

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  Character, Lasts, Consistent

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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.]

  Horace

  Men, Heaven, Naked

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