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One Quotes by Horace
- It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
- One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.
- One Sallow does not make Summer.
- A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose…
- One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
- Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.
- No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
- What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed
- When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
- The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
- It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and…
- The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would…
- One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
- The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
- While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
- One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
- Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
- Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
- Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in…
- One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
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