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Beauty Quote by Horace

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““It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.””

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

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“Natales grate numeras? (Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)”

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country.

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Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

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

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“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.”

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