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
grief ambition hands
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
results duty
Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
alive journalism
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
memories practice finals
If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.
cigarette-smoke fishing fire
A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
long alive journalism
Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
men earning-it careers
The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
atheism vedas doctrine
There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
mean cutting winter
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
practice would-be pulpit
Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
men rights white-man
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.
dogmatism bigotry
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
men rights inferiors
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
men riches culture
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.