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Adverse Quote by Horace

“Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.” quote by Horace — Download Open image

“Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.”

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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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A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

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Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

John Stuart Mill

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People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of…

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A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

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Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep,…

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I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse…

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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy,…

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Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule…

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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are a lot of people in Milwaukee who have had adverse impacts from Scott Walker. He's managed to mess over everyone in Milwaukee.

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In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

Wilhelm Steinitz

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