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Horace Quotes about Literature

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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

Mistress, Use, Literature

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Literature

Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Justice, Literature, Fidelity

Horace, James DOUGLAS (M.D.), Samuel Patrick, David WATSON (of Brechin.) (1745). “The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Two Languages Will Admit. Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions. Wherein the Words of the Latin Text are Put in Their Grammatical Order ... with Notes ... The Whole Adapted Tothe Capacities of Youth at School, as Well as of Private Gentlemen. By David Watson ... Revised by a Gentleman Well Skill'd in this Sort of Literature at London [i.e. Samuel Patrick]. The Second Edition. [With a”, p.104

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Thinking, Literature, May

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Literature, Crime, Disgrace

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Knowledge, Literature, Injustice

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Father, Literature, Injustice

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

Wall, Literature, Innocence

"Imitations of Horace: With An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and the Epilogue to the Satires".

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Mind, Purpose, Literature

Leave the rest to the gods.

Literature

Horace (1770). “The Works of Horace, ...: In Two Volumes”, p.21

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Wish, Literature, Poet

Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Literature

Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.269

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Literature, Matter, Failing

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Anger, Men, Literature

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Literature, Sullen, Modesty

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Writing, Parent, Literature

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Literature, Increase, Labor

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Grief, Literature, Firsts

Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Eye, Years, Literature

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Stupid, Water, Literature

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