Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACEHe will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
More Horace Quotes
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
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Remember to be calm in adversity.
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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
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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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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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By the favour of the heavens
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Punishment follows close on crime.
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