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Words Quotes by Horace
- When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words…
- The words can not return.
- He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
- The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In…
- There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
- I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
- Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
- Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
- When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.
- You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.
- A picture is a poem without words
- Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old…
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