A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Quote by Horace
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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
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Horace Quotes
- A picture is a poem without words.
- Life is largely a matter of expectation.
- Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
- Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
- The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
- Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
- No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
- Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
- You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
- Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Best Quotes
- Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
- I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
- A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
- Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
- War and Peace never stay at a moment.
- But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?