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- The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797), Letter to Sir David Dalrymple, 1770
- And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700), Imitation of Horace
- Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- Whatever advice you give, be brief.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
- Horace Smith
- Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
- Horace Bushnell
- Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.
- Horace Binney
- If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.
- Horace Bushnell
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