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Marble Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little…
- A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of…
More Marble Quotes
- Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to… — Joshua Chamberlain
- What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. — Joseph Addison
- The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. — Wendell Berry
- So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and… — Johann Gottfried Herder
- A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against… — Aldous Huxley
- Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace… — Virgil
- The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of… — Anatole France