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
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
beautiful all-things
All things considered, nothing is beautiful.
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Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.
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Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.
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Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.
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There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.
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Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.
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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
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Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale
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The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
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As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.
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Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
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Bacchus drowns within the bowl - Troubles that corrode the soul
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Do you hear, or does some fond illusion mock me?