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«The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.»
Author: Madame de Stael
| Keywords:
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«The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| About:
Death and dying,
Happiness
| Keywords:
grandly, Greeks, phrase, the Greeks, tragic
«Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Life,
World
| Keywords:
dedicate, Greeks, savageness, tame, tamer, tames, tamest, the Greeks, wrote
«Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.»
«Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.»
«MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty miles south of Troy, which turned and twisted in the effort to get out of hearing when the Greeks and Trojans boasted of their prowess.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aimlessly, Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, boasted, Greeks, Greek word, meander, meandering, meanders, one hundred, one hundred fifty, prowess, the Greeks, Trojan, Trojans, Troy, twisted
«That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
avenging, bloated, browse, browsed, browsing, cut-and-thrust, devilish, Greeks, introduced, iron horse, lance, mercenary, Moore, muddied, neigh, neighed, neighing, pest, rending, ribs, The Pest, town meeting, Trojan, Trojans, Trojan Horse
«New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual o»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
codes, Greeks, new media, patterns, phonetic, set down, Supposing, the Greeks, visual
«The wisdom of the Greeks, when compared to that of the Jews, is absolutely bestial; for apart from God there can be no wisdom, not any understanding and insight»
«The ancient oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, Greeks, know nothing, oracle, oracles, the Greeks, wisest
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