Ovid Quotes - Page 19

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• Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

  Ovid

  Soil, Forget, Homesickness

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• We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

  Ovid

  Time, Feet, Rapids

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• The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

  Ovid

  Judging, Facts, Duty

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• That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.

  Ovid

  Light, Cheerfulness, Load

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• She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

  Ovid

  Husband, Matrimony, Wells

  Ovid (1808). “Ovid's Epistles. Translated into English verse by various authors. To which is prefixed the Life of Ovid”, p.131

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• It is good to be taught even by an enemy

  Ovid

  Enemy, Taught

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• A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Years, Frail

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• By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

  Ovid

  Art, Faithful, Study

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• For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

  Ovid

  Believe, May, Common

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• If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

  Ovid

  Marriage, Memories, Equal

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• A woman is always buying something.

  Ovid

  Funny, Buying Something, Buying

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• The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
  White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
  Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
  Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
  His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
  To sooty blackness from the purest white.

  Ovid

  Ravens, White, Swans

  Ovid (1833). “Ovid”, p.56

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• The iron ring is worn out by constant use.
  [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

  Ovid

  Iron, Use, Action

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• The spirits run riot in youth.

  Ovid

  Running, Spirit, Youth

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• Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

  Ovid

  Yield, Age, Steps

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• Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
  had she not seemed so herself.

  Ovid

  Mother, Blessed, Motherhood

  Ovid (1960). “Metamorphoses”

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• It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

  Ovid

  Enemy

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• Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

  Ovid

  Mind, Disease

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• I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.

  Ovid

  Weapons, Strikes, Hard

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• The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.
  [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]

  Ovid

  Sick, Mind, Bears

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• Nothing aids which may not also injure us.
  Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn
  His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

  Ovid

  Fire, Hands, Plot

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• A gift in time of need is most acceptable.

  Ovid

  Needs, Time Of Need, Acceptable

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• Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Light, Jewels

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• If the art is concealed, it succeeds.

  Ovid

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

  Ovid

  Skills, Luck, Demand

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.130, Indiana University Press

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