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“Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime,
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,
Now melt into sorrow, now madded to crime?”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto I)
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“Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were;
First in the race that led to glory's goal,
They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)
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“Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth!
Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 73)
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“The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung.
Where grew the arts of war and peace,--
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto III, st. 86)
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“Such is the aspect of this shore;
'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!
So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,
We start, for soul is wanting there.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Giaour (l. 90)
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“Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 240)
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“To Greece we give our shining blades.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Evenings in Greece--First Evening
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“Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as
an educated gentlemen.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes Source: Major Barbara
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Greece Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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