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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.


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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
BALTASAR GRACIAN I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
HORACE Never be so brief as to become obscure.
TRYON EDWARDS In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
HORACE In trying to be concise I become obscure.
UNKNOWN People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
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MOBY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I always start pretty strong. When I do struggle, it tends to be in the second half.
CHRIS HAMMOND I hope that people will realize that the struggle to make a life better with a sibling is worth it.
MARIE BRENNER I shall be so brief that I have already finished
SALVADOR DALí I shall be so brief that I have already finished
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AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When I hear of a group of courageous workers engaged in a historic struggle, it is important to me t...
JOHN EDWARDS I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was ...
DAVID SANBORN When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
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GENE FOWLER I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.
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GENE FOWLER I believe that anyone can become better, if you put in the effort.
BELLA THORNE It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that ...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL It was a brief conversation. I told (Brooks) that I didn't want to hear anything.
DAVE REED A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscu...
IAN HACKING It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise.
Did that hurt?" Ha...
JOHN FLANAGAN This (document) is not obscure, nor should it be difficult to find.
ROBERT FREEMAN It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.
JAMES K. FEIBLEMAN When speaking, be clear, be brief and be memorable.
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CARLOS GALINDO To visit www.carlosgalindo.com is to become informed of the Immigrant's struggle.
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AHMED ALI ANJUM Well, sir, do you mean to remain there, commending my father’s taste in wine, or do you mean to ac...
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DEYTH BANGER The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward...
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AMBER SMITH To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
NATE TORRENCE Don't remember a meaning and be obscure to it.
JAMES A. BEST III I struggle, to be perfectly honest.
MANDY PATINKIN There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when th...
OTTMAR HITZFELD Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessar...
IRWIN ROSE Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants a...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants an...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG The fact that I am Latino is not a secret. There's not much I can do about that. It is what it i...
PETE GALLEGO There is nothing like advertising,it makes the small become big & the big bigger,it makes the obscur...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I find no comfort in the Now, it is far too brief.
SEAN MAURICE HUNT The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant p...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.
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PETER D. MITCHELL The triumph cannot be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime...
WILMA RUDOLPH Does it matter?" Halt asked.
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JOHN FLANAGAN When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be...
ANSEL ADAMS When words become unclear, I shall focus with prayer. When opinions become inadequate, I shall be co...
JOHN P. SCHILLER You can become rich if you work hard at it. It's been a struggle, it is not easy.
FORREST LUCAS There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian...
MARIE BRENNAN Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It...
AMIT RAY Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I think crush is the perfect word to describe it, too, because it simultaneously means 'to have a br...
ELNA BAKER I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs tha...
DYLAN MORAN It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who...
TINA YOTHERS I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what...
ANNE BYRHHE Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what...
NINON DE LENCLOS Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I was sad when I knew I was going to have to make this record a little more obscure and a little har...
MATTHEW CAWS Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co...
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"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or s...
DYLAN THOMAS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
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MATT RIDLEY Be obscure clearly.
E. B. WHITE When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th...
MOTHER TERESA It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA But...what if I mistime it?"
Gilan smiled widely. "Well, in that case, I'll probably lop your h...
JOHN FLANAGAN Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too...
GEORGE COMBE Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, ...
JOHN FLANAGAN When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much lon...
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JEFF CAPEL To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
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DAVE DOUGLAS When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to belive it.
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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.
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HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
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HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
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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?
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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.
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HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
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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.
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HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
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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.
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HORACE When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
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HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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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.
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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.
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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 The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at
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HORACE Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of w...
HORACE He who is greedy is always in want.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
HORACE Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the ...
HORACE Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, be...
HORACE It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE The pen is the tongue of the mind.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dor...
HORACE Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
HORACE Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he ...
HORACE The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous ...
HORACE Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
HORACE Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE Make a good use of the present.
HORACE To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come a...
HORACE The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE The covetous man is ever in want.
HORACE Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
HORACE He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
HORACE There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right canno...
HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
HORACE Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
HORACE Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
HORACE I will not add another word.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out be...
HORACE Faults are soon copied.
HORACE In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HORACE In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
HORACE A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doi...
HORACE The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
HORACE It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE There is measure in all things.
HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
HORACE You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented m...
HORACE Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
HORACE The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
HORACE Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
HORACE It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
HORACE I shall not altogether die.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
HORACE Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
HORACE Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine
HORACE Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE He always hurries to the issue, rushing his readers into the middle of the story as if they knew it ...
HORACE A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE