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
music faults singers
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
father injustice sin
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
integrity way sin
He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
hate sin virtue
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
sin virtue refrain
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
music singing want
There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
casual chair exception four mostly since three
Since then his chair has been vacant, with the exception of three or four casual visits, mostly on holidays.
dominated frown gone literature modernist prize scientific since time trend
It's been a long time since the prize has gone to someone like that. Esthetic literature has dominated because, I think, the modernist trend has been to frown upon scientific literature,
commit saviour sinner
Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour.
promise sin remedy
Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.
quality sin appearance
True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.
sermons sinner
You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
two world sin
There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale