Alexander Pope Quotes, War Quotes, Greek Quotes

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

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The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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Without Greek studies there is no education.

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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

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I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!

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Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos.

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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

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The Greek people are entrepreneurial.

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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

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