Horace - Day Quotes

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That man shall live as his own master and in happiness who can say each day 'I have lived': tomorrow let the Father fill the sky with a black cloud or clear sunshine.

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It has ever been, and ever will be, permitted to issue words stamped with the mint-mark of the day. As forests change their leaves with each year's decline, and the earliest drop off: so with words, the old race dies, and like the young of human kind, the new-born bloom and thrive.

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He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

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As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.

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Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may; With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.

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The year and the hour which robs us of the fair day warn us not to hope for things to last for ever.

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Believe each day that has dawned is your last. Some hour to which you have not been looking forward will prove lovely. As for me, if you want a good laugh, you will come and find me fat and sleek, in excellent condition, one of Epicurus's herd of pigs.

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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

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Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

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Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

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Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

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While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.

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You should turn the pages of your Greek models by night and by day.

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