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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.


Horace Greeley

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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.
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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.
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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.]
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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 I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
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HORACE GREELEY Go west, young man.
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HORACE GREELEY Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
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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.
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ANDREW GREELEY Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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HORACE Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
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HORACE Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
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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.
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HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
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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.
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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.
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