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Horace Greeley

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For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinne...
HAROLD HOLZER I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
HAROLD HOLZER Go West, young man! Go West.
JOHN L.B. SOULE Go West, young man.
AARON BURR Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
HORACE GREELEY Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh a...
HAROLD HOLZER Go West, young man, and grow up with the country (Hints toward Reforms)
HORACE GREELEY One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor tha...
HAROLD HOLZER We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines ...
HAROLD HOLZER Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
HORACE GREELEY The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
HORACE GREELEY I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
HORACE GREELEY The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so ...
HORACE GREELEY Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
HORACE GREELEY Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
HORACE GREELEY Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
HORACE GREELEY Common Sense is very uncommon.
HORACE GREELEY The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a d...
HORACE GREELEY There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
HORACE GREELEY Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is charac...
HORACE GREELEY Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
HORACE GREELEY Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is c...
HORACE GREELEY Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
HORACE GREELEY Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
HORACE GREELEY Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is charact...
HORACE GREELEY Life ain't all beer and skittles.
HORACE GREELEY Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]
HORACE GREELEY The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
HORACE GREELEY The darkest hour in any man's' life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it
HORACE GREELEY The Republic need to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering; so th...
HORACE GREELEY Ease up, the play is over.
HORACE GREELEY Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
HORACE GREELEY The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
HORACE GREELEY I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
HORACE GREELEY There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed
HORACE GREELEY The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning...
HORACE GREELEY There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.
HORACE GREELEY Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
HORACE GREELEY The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That’s how the best id...
SHANNON MULLEN There are three gaming centers in Fort Collins, Greeley had none. I thought Greeley was a good place...
FRANK MCCONNELL It was fun to see him blossom when he went to West Point. When he came out of the Army. The strong s...
JAY GALLAGHER He is the English Horace,
ALEXANDER POPE West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides I must go, / Where the fleet of stars is anchored...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.
HAROLD HOLZER Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He ad...
JOHN FLANAGAN A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his lif...
ROBERT BYRNE Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions ...
HORACE MANN If you want to go east, don't go west
RAMAKRISHNA The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.
HAROLD HOLZER An old young man, will be a young old man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you want to go east, don't go west.
RAMAKRISHNA When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST Chad is a phenomenal young man. He's a young man with great integrity. No swearing. No cheap shots. ...
ALAN VEALE Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON We feel the fundamentals in the Greeley market, particularly this location in Promontory, are very g...
NICK CHRISTENSEN Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence! - Horace Smith and James Smith,
HORACE SMITH AND JAMES SMITH Mikeru was still puzzling over Horace's last remark. He frowned. 'Kurokuma, these shenanigans... Wha...
JOHN FLANAGAN Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employe...
HAROLD HOLZER Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, ...
JOHN FLANAGAN He's really a good player. He's a smooth, level-headed young man. He'll go a long way on this tour.
ED MCINTOSH I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
DIANE ABBOTT She was really sick over the break and couldn't swim for awhile, and even early last week she was li...
MARK MOREHOUSE Old man wiser than young man
PALITHA ARIYARATHNA Steve touched a lot of musicians here (in Greeley). It's heartwarming to me that everyone wants to h...
HAL PETTIT A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E. W. HOWE Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable yo...
NEIL GAIMAN You can't go east and west at the same time,
JEAN CHAREST Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN A young man idle, an old man needy.
ENGLISH PROVERB I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD No man knows he is young while he is young.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON No man knows he is young while he is young.
G. K. CHESTERTON Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise.
Did that hurt?" Ha...
JOHN FLANAGAN Does it matter?" Halt asked.
Horace shrugged. "Not really, I suppose. I just wondered why you'...
JOHN FLANAGAN The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
STEVEN BRUST It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
ABU BAKR We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, W...
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE a giant of a man who helped shape the character of the West.
BOB PECK A young man married is a man that's marred.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
AGNES SMEDLEY I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, youn...
PABLO CASALS Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."

I...
HORACE Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.'
'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we hav...
JOHN FLANAGAN I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises...
ARTHUR BALFOUR Pension never inriched young man.
GEORGE HERBERT It does last," Horace said. "Spring does. You'd almost think there was some purpose to it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding ...
CARROT TOP My mother cried when I told her I really didn't want to go to West Point. So I went.
MARTIN DEMPSEY If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (Mary Greeley) is recruiting volunteers through its employee base to provide first aid. The hospital...
BETH SWENSON It is impossible to live without hardship. The hardship of daily trifles, Ashely explains, ever accu...
JUSTIN GO It is impossible to live without danger, Ashley explains. The danger is always there, the hazard of ...
JUSTIN GO I would prefer to die than to be depressed for depression can hurt you everyday and it'll last for a...
CEDRIC GO In Greeley, our gas stations are neighborhood stores where the clientele is fairly familiar with the...
BILL GALLAGHER I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
SAMUEL DASH He's a highly touted young man.
CLAUDE NOEL Rhys is an exceptional young man,
FRED WARREN That young man has been impressive!
KYLE BUSCH

More Horace Greeley

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
HORACE GREELEY The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
HORACE GREELEY I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
HORACE GREELEY The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so ...
HORACE GREELEY Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
HORACE GREELEY Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
HORACE GREELEY Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
HORACE GREELEY Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
HORACE GREELEY Common Sense is very uncommon.
HORACE GREELEY The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a d...
HORACE GREELEY There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
HORACE GREELEY Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is charac...
HORACE GREELEY Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
HORACE GREELEY Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is c...
HORACE GREELEY Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
HORACE GREELEY Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
HORACE GREELEY Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is charact...
HORACE GREELEY Life ain't all beer and skittles.
HORACE GREELEY Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]
HORACE GREELEY The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
HORACE GREELEY The darkest hour in any man's' life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it
HORACE GREELEY The Republic need to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering; so th...
HORACE GREELEY Go West, young man, and grow up with the country (Hints toward Reforms)
HORACE GREELEY Ease up, the play is over.
HORACE GREELEY Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
HORACE GREELEY The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
HORACE GREELEY I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
HORACE GREELEY There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed
HORACE GREELEY The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning...
HORACE GREELEY There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.
HORACE GREELEY Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
HORACE GREELEY Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. St...
ANDREW GREELEY I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.
ANDREW GREELEY If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories...
ANDREW GREELEY I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And th...
ANDREW GREELEY Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thoug...
ANDREW GREELEY The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. I...
ANDREW GREELEY Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
ANDREW GREELEY The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, whic...
ANDREW GREELEY Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
ANDREW GREELEY (The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up the semina...
ANDREW GREELEY An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently...
ANDREW GREELEY Thirty years ago, before the Vatican Council, Catholics didn't know what liturgy was.
ANDREW GREELEY An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permane...
ANDREW GREELEY Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of so...
ANDREW GREELEY I don't know what the next Pope is going to be like. I do know this, the Catholic laity all over the...
ANDREW GREELEY I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to iden...
ANDREW GREELEY Religion declined abruptly in England and the Netherlands. It is stagnant in West Germany, and it is...
ANDREW GREELEY I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after deat...
ANDREW GREELEY Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy'...
ANDREW GREELEY Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy&...
ANDREW GREELEY One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious p...
ANDREW GREELEY Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membersh...
ANDREW GREELEY You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take ...
ANDREW GREELEY I was never a teenager. I became a teenager in Christ the King and I never grew out of it. More seri...
ANDREW GREELEY I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very tr...
ANDREW GREELEY It's clearly not the lunacy of five years ago, but I think there is early evidence of some frothines...
MICHAEL GREELEY Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of...
ANDREW GREELEY We're comfortable with the numbers, knowing how cloudy the crystal ball is.
JOE GREELEY The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. Th...
ANDREW GREELEY In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That'...
ANDREW GREELEY The outcome would have been the same. I think he would have played his cards and lost again.
GREELEY WELLS If that's not a good reason to call the psychologist as a witness, I don't know what is.
GREELEY WELLS It has been a very tragic case from the beginning to the end. And had the case not been reversed, Mr...
GREELEY WELLS They're not actors. They're real people. I would hope anyone who sees them will take away the extrem...
GREELEY WELLS It's the most dangerous drug that our society has come across. It has no medical benefit. It makes y...
GREELEY WELLS That's been true in every state. But that law by itself is not enough.
GREELEY WELLS There were some who wanted to have it (Saturday). But I think we did the right thing in the end.
JOE GREELEY Even though it's easy to say, 'Give us a time line,' it's really not that easy with all the moving p...
JOE GREELEY We all walked away (Monday) with a to-do list. So we may get together again, depending on when (the ...
JOE GREELEY Maybe a few people won't come that would have been here. But it looks like most people are here.
JOE GREELEY The company is targeting a very large potential market.
MICHAEL GREELEY We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can ret...
HORACE Don't think, just do.
HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
HORACE Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
HORACE The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Wh...
HORACE A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
HORACE Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make m...
HORACE One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by differ...
HORACE You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and do...
HORACE Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as ga...
HORACE He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HORACE Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
HORACE A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with th...
HORACE Labor diligently to increase your property.
HORACE Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who...
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
HORACE Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. HORACE Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
HORACE Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
HORACE You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers...
HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
HORACE One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instr...
HORACE Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
HORACE How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which c...
HORACE Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
HORACE Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
HORACE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
HORACE Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless...
HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HORACE It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
HORACE Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
HORACE Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
HORACE Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
HORACE You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
HORACE The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...
HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
HORACE Anger is short madness
HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be short.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
HORACE A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
HORACE How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
HORACE He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving ot...
HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
HORACE To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
HORACE Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
HORACE He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
HORACE Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they wi...
HORACE The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the light...
HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
HORACE Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity ...
HORACE Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up,...
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
HORACE Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE There is nothing assured to mortals.
HORACE This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are a...
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
HORACE I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
HORACE Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
HORACE Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
HORACE I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
HORACE The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poe...
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
HORACE Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
HORACE He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
HORACE In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns up...
HORACE Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
HORACE Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction a...
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain d...
HORACE Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
HORACE In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
HORACE Buy the rumor and sell the fact
HORACE No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slo...
HORACE