"Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial……" — Robert Graves
"Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon."
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75 Quotes by Robert Graves
Robert Graves has 75 quotes on this site.
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to…
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat…
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought,…
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More Dwell Quotes
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
— Saint Augustine
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
— Jane Austen
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so…
— Teresa of Avila
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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live,…
— Joseph Addison
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
— Joseph Addison
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I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell…
— Jim Bishop
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
— William Blake
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.…
— David Cameron
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,…
— David Cameron
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try…
— Johnny Cash
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