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Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these
seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the
illustrious Homer.
[Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae,
Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.]
Author: Anonymous
Source: (translated from Greek)
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Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill
cannot be hid.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. V, v. 14)
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Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount
Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XLVIII, v. 2)
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A rose-red city half as old as Time.
Author: Dean John William Burgon
Source: Petra
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I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 72)
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God made the country, and man made the town.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. I, l. 749)
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No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous
Dark beauty flowering under veils,
Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:
A village like an instinct left to rust,
Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
Author: Lawrence George Durrell
Source: Sarajevo
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The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a
famous city.
Author: Euripides
Source: Encomium on Alcibiades, probably quoted
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In the busy haunts of men.
Author: Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
Source: Tale of the Secret Tribunal (pt. I, l. 2)
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Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.
Author: Thomas Heywood
Source: Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells
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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of
each and every town or city.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI)
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Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. 14, l. 410), (Pope's translation)
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Every man cannot go to Corinthum.
[Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 17, 36)
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Even cities have their graves!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Amalfi (st. 6)
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Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode
But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road.
Not for us are content, and quiet, and peace of mind,
For we go seeking cities that we shall never find.
Author: John Masefield
Source: The Seekers
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Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.
Author: John Milton
Source: L'Allegro (l. 117)
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The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Author: John Milton
Source: L'Allegro (l. 117)
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Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain.
[Lat., Nisi Dominus frustra.]
Author: Motto
Source: of the City of Edinburgh
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Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this
can be effected by men residing in the city.
Author: Plato
Source: Works (vol. III, The Phaedrus)
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I dwelt in a city enchanted,
And lonely indeed was my lot;
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Though the latitude's rather uncertain,
And the longitude also is vague,
The persons I pity who know not the City
The beautiful City of Prague.
Author: W.J. Prowse
Source: The City of Prague, ("Little Village on Thames")
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Petite ville, grand renom.
Small town, great renown.
Author: Francois Rabelais
Source: Pantagruel (bk. V, ch. XXXV), of Chinon, Rabelais's native town
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Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim,
Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.
Author: Thomas Seward
Source: On Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford-on-Avon
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That is the way to lay the city flat,
To bring the roof to the foundation,
And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,
In heaps and piles of ruin.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Cominius at III, i)
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What is the city but the people?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Sicinius at III, i)
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He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it
built of marble.
[Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]
Author: Caius Tranquillus Suetonius
Source: Caesar Augustus (28), adapted
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