"Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full……" — Horace
"Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom."
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499 Quotes by Horace
Horace has 499 quotes on this site.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy…
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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness…
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not…
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives…
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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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More Bosom Quotes
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
— Joseph Addison
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted…
— George Washington
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive…
— J. G. Holland
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
— Thomas Brooks
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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we…
— Richard Sibbes
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What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk…
— John Bunyan
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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
— Giacomo Casanova
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The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the…
— Lydia M. Child
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I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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