Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACEWhat impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
More Horace Quotes
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Don’t waste the opportunity.
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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
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In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
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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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Life gives nothing to man without labor.
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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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