"Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand……" — Horace
"Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine."
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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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Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of…
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Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains…
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Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid…
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The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We…
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All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred…
— Wheeler McMillen
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Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the…
— Mikhail Naimy
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The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One…
— Rumi
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I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.
— Franny Billingsley
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How much do you love me, a million bushels? Oh, a lot more than that, Oh, a lot more. And…
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