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
stars jobs somewhere-under
Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.
hope dark clouds
However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud...
moving blood soul
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
bible discovery fire
My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.
two way trust-in-god
Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.
forgiveness men needs
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.
inspirational encounters mental-strength
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
attempting cold desire inspiring pupil teacher
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
diamond gone lost reward sixty somewhere sunrise time
Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
life wisdom thinking
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
life learning secret
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
music children would-be
Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
dozen use express-yourself
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
love world
Love must be the same in all worlds.