Mind Quotes by Horace

That best of blessings, a contented mind.

— Horace

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

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Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

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It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

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It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

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The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

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With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

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You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on…

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

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A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

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Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

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If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a…

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What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds,…

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As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others…

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The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet…

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What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious…

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They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with…

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A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]

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Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your…

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Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the…

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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…

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability…

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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

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He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

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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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Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

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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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The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had…

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Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

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We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as…

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Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from…

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The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.…

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