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I want to live, and die with you. — Horace

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. — Horace

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it. — Horace Walpole

Carpe diem."

(Odes: I.11) — Horace

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it. — Horace

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. — Horace Walpole

Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded. — Horace

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean. — Horace

Anger is a short madness. — Horace

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. — Horace Mann

If a better system is thine, impart it if not, make use of mine. — Horace

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor. — Horace

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect. — Horace Mann

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil. — Horace

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace

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

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. — Horace

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace

I don't know anything that's quite so dead as a man who's fallen three or four thousand feet off the edge of a cloud. — George Horace Lorimer

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. — Horace

Never take your eyes off them," Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. "Didn't MacNeil ever tell you that? — John Flanagan

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously. — Horace

Wisdom at times is found in folly. — Horace

Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands. — Horace

Force without reason falls of its own weight. — Horace

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome. — Horace

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher. — Horace Bushnell

No, but you're wrong now, and always will be. — Horace

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man. — Horace Greeley

Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning. — Horace

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist. — Horace

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance. — Horace

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. — Horace

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. — Horace

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. — Horace

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? — Horace

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. — Horace

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum? — Horace

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars. — Horace

No one is content with his own lot. — Horace

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! — Horace

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.) — Horace

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. — Horace

The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn. — Horace

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do. — George Horace Lorimer

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.) — Horace

Most virtue lies between two vices. — Horace

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on. — Horace

Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself. — John Flanagan

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. — Horace

The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;
not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium — Horace

It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own. — Horace

The war brought out all the art in me. — Horace Pippin

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds. — Horace

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off. — Horace

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. — Horace

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. — Horace Walpole

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. — Horace

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. — Horace Walpole

Boldness is a crucial element of genius. — Horace Freeland Judson

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth. — Horace

Tear thyself from delay. — Horace

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. — Horace Walpole

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. — Horace Walpole

carpe diem (seize the day)

Enjoy! Enjoy! — Horace

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. — Horace Mann

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism. — Horace Mann

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. — Horace

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest. — Horace

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. — Horace

Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand. — Horace

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] — Horace

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. — Horace

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked. — Horace Mann

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.
[Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.] — Horace

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples. — George Horace Lorimer

As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow. — Horace

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man. — Horace

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar? — Horace

Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
[Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae
Celata virtus.] — Horace

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. — Horace

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends. — George Horace Lorimer

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different. — Horace Silver

No master can make me swear blind obedience. — Horace

Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help. — Horace

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen. — Reginald Horace Blyth

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last. — Horace

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas") — Horace

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least. — Horace

This is a madhouse!" said Horace. Deirdre laughed. "No, doveling. It's a menagerie. — Ransom Riggs

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself. — Horace Pippin

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow. — Horace

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. — Horace Walpole

A pauper in the midst of wealth. — Horace

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. — Horace

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. — Horace

Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs. — Horace

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear. — Horace