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“Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.” quote by Horace — Download Open image

“Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.”

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Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us…

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“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)”

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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

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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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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

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

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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

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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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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted…

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

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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

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Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness…

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

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