Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story. Horace More Quotes by Horace More Quotes From Horace His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour. Horace excited hours In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. Horace disposition climate Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue. Horace riches wealth firsts Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. Horace tutus envy mean There are faults we would fain pardon. Horace pardon faults Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. Horace granted fate gains Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer. Horace procrastination eye mind The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. Horace towns race country The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden. Horace forbidden tendencies humanity The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves. Horace lasts tree snow Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity. Horace severity employed ridicule Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase. Horace riches care desire I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. Horace iron cutting vices The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. Horace melancholy cheerful dislike The question is yet before the court. Horace court Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce. Horace fly-away too-much may Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them. Horace mind may The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. Horace purses wish men Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help. Horace one-thing friendly helping I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion. Horace pyramids wind years
