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Horace Inspirational Quotes (897)

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I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book, if it had but a single good thought in it, might be kept alive by it.
Horace Binney Wallace
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He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.
Horace
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole
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There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
George Horace Lorimer
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If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.
Horace Walpole
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False praise can please, and calumny affright None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.
Horace
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Talent without tact is only half talent.
Horace Greeley
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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
Horace Mann
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Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.
Horace
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How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.
Horace Walpole
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We are free to yield to truth.
Horace
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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
Horace
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The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
Horace
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In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.
Horace Mann
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I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
Horace
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In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
Horace
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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.
Horace
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Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.
Horace Bushnell
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Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.
Horace Mann
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Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Horace Walpole
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A picture is a poem without words
Horace
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A greater liar than the Parthians.
Horace
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The same night awaits us all.
Horace
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He is praised by some, blamed by others.
Horace
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