What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see. Horace More Quotes by Horace More Quotes From Horace Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it. Horace morrow Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails. Horace knotsfailingcutting The covetous are always in want. Horace want The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. Horace drunkardswinepraise The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another. Horace explanationdifficulty The mob will now and then see things in a right light. Horace now-and-thenlight The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard. Horace contemplatingtreasuremay The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. Horace settlingillustrationdifficulty The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof. Horace towerswindfall Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain. Horace pluckevil The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest. Horace hours Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. Horace incompletefortune The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof. Horace highertowersfall The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue. Horace refrainvirtuesin I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty. Horace povertylastswings The fellow is either a madman or a poet. Horace fellowsmadmenpoet Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. Horace increasericheswicked And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. Horace grove A hungry stomach rarely despises common food. Horace hungrycommonfood The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. Horace sorrowfulgaysorrow
