Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
vocabulary
The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
sports mean eye
Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.
men west world
If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
men white-man age
A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
progress ink newspapers
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
country cities crowds
Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.
running free-thought seeds
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
trouble
Money is more trouble than it is worth.
crazy sleep sick
I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
brain idle deficiency
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
country evil fearless
Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.
regret public-opinion would-be
I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
play ease
Ease up, the play is over.
home west faces
If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.