A Quote by Horace

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

Horace

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

Horace

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Benjamin Disraeli

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Horace

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

Horace

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Horace

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

Barnabe Rich

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

Rabindranath Tagore

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

C. S. Lewis

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

John Climacus

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

Horace

Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.

John Constable

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

Phillips Brooks

Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate to go through and look a long time for it without finding it One may find it and it may not open If it opens one may be through it As one goes through it one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it no one went through a gate there was no gate to go through no one ever found a gate no one ever realized there was never a gate

R. D. Laing

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