"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in……" — Edmund Waller
"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
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Edmund Waller
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32 Quotes by Edmund Waller
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness,…
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I…
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved,…
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The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor…
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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More Greek Quotes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity,…
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.
— Eric Bana
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
— John Berger
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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see…
— Stella Adler
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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
— Edward Bond
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think…
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