Horace Quotes - Page 32

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• Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

  Horace

  Dark, Night, Issues

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• I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

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  Brass, Raised, Monument

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• Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

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  Heirs, Succeed, Wave

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• Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.

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  Sweet, Love Making, Despise

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• Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.

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  Heart, Cold

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• Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

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  Animal, Spirit

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• Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]

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• God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

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  Guilty, Innocent

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• He will be beloved when he is no more.

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  Beloved

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• He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

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• He is praised by some, blamed by others.

  Horace

  Horace, (2016). “The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace”, p.196, Princeton University Press

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• He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

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  His Love, Wealth, Grows

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• An undertaking beset with danger.

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  Danger, Undertakings

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• Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.

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  Book, Fate, Live For Today

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• It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.

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  Vases, Pot

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• It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

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  Influence, Grapes, Cato

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• In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

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  Sleep, Long, May

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• Joking apart, now let us be serious.

  Horace

  Serious

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• Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.

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  Return, Discarded, Has Beens

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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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  Life, Home, Night

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• To carry timber into the wood.
  [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

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  Woods, Timber, Labor

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• He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold.
  [Lat., Qui studet optatam cursu coningere metam
  Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.]

  Horace

  Boys, Goal, Suffering

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• Brighter than Parian marble.

  Horace

  Marble, Brighter

  Horace (1843). “The Odes of Horace, Translated by J. Scriven”, p.37

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• Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

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  Mind, Care, Morrow

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• Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

  Horace

  Long, Add, Deliberation

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