Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. - Horace
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
- Horace
He is praised by some, blamed by others. - Horace
He is praised by some, blamed by others.
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable. - Horace
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.
Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek. - Horace
Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling. - Horace
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
Money amassed either serves us or rules us. - Horace
Money amassed either serves us or rules us.
No one is content with his own lot. - Horace
No one is content with his own lot.
Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much. - Horace
Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
Be modest in speech, but excel in action. - Horace
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
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