"You will have written exceptionally well if, by……" — Horace
"You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original."
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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 Arrangement Quotes
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
— Aristotle
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
— Aristotle
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
— Bella Abzug
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent…
— Erik Erikson
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I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees…
— Tony La Russa
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A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's…
— Roberto Burle Marx
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
— Will Durant
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Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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