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Horace Inspirational Quotes (897)

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We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
Horace Mann
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All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined if unasked, they never leave off.
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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
Horace Greeley
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When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.
George Horace Lorimer
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The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]
Horace
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We are deceived by the appearance of right.
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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]
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In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
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I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.
Horace Walpole
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Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
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There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
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We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to Him, we find every thing is transformed. There is life in us from God a kind of Christ-consciousness is opened in us, testifying with the apostle,--Christ liveth in me.
Horace Bushnell
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It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
Horace
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Education is only second to nature.
Horace Bushnell
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Give fools the first and women the last word.
George Horace Lorimer
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Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.
Horace Mann
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Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.)
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Limbs of a dismembered poet.
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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.
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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
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Force without reason falls of its own weight.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
Horace
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