"How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!"

Horace on economy and economics   

"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."

Horace on eyes
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"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."

Horace on justice
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"A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient."

Horace on justice
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

Horace on knowledge   

"I strive to be brief, and I become obscure."

Horace on brevity   

"Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character."

Horace on character   

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."

Horace on wisdom
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"A word once uttered can never be recalled."

Horace on words
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"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years."

Horace on writers and writing
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"I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave."

Horace on death   

"Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king."

Horace on death   

"The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory. "

Horace on uncategorised   

"Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler."

Horace on biography
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"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin."

Horace on action   

"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world."

Horace on life
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"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

Horace on anger
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"Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?"

Horace on persuasion   

"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."

Horace on poetry and poets   

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers."

Horace on poetry and poets   

"A picture is a poem without words."

Horace on art   

"Seize the day."

Horace on present   

"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."

Horace on risk   

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

Hull, Raymond on approval
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"Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens."

Browne, Harry on security
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"When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer."

Browne, Harry on security   

"You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily."

Browne, Harry on vision   

"You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there."

Browne, Harry on circumstance
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"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."

Edwards, Tryon on habit   

"Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them."

Edwards, Tryon on accuracy
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"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."

Edwards, Tryon on accuracy
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"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."

Edwards, Tryon on forgiveness
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"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated."

Edwards, Tryon on faith
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"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."

Edwards, Tryon on enthusiasm
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"Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth."

Edwards, Tryon on doubt   

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."

Edwards, Tryon on destiny
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"Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old."

Edwards, Tryon on age and aging
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"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up."

Edwards, Tryon on age and aging
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"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold."

Meldrum, Dr. A. B. on perseverance
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"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired."

Strauss, Robert on perseverance
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