"Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have……" — Horace
"Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate."
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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 Booksellers Quotes
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't…
— Alain de Botton
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I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer…
— Piers Anthony
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Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation…
— George Augustus Henry Sala
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There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best…
— Louis Agassiz
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For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.
— Christopher Smart
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There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows…
— P.B. Kerr
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The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.
— James Boswell
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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was…
— Jules de Goncourt
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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
— Leigh Hunt
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The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and…
— Gabriel Zaid
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Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander,…
— Kevin Myers
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