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  • English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. Her wildness is a greenwood, her wild man a Robin Hood. There is plenty of genial love of Nature, but not so much of Nature herself. Her chronicles inform us when her wild animals, but not the wild man in her, became extinct.

    Animal   Men   Lakes  
    Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.167, e-artnow
  • Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  • All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!

    Rome   America   Weight  
    Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.196, BOA Editions, Ltd.
  • In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.

    Beauty   Mean   Eye  
  • Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

  • There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

    Mean   Science   Space  
    Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.212, Faber & Faber
  • The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

    Art   Teaching   Rome  
    Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.315, Cambridge University Press
  • The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4
  • No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

    Religious   Prayer   Rome  
  • Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 73
  • For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

    Men   Conceited   May  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.243, Harvard University Press
  • Since the days of Greece and Rome the word 'citizen' was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

    Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr
  • Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

    Mother   Art   Eye  
    Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)
  • Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.

    Jobs   Rome   Leader  
    Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub
  • We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.

    Hurt   Sex   Lying  
    Peter Singer, Jim Mason (2007). “The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter”, p.3, Rodale
  • But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral of physical government of the world.

    Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.429, Modern Library
  • Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

    Greatness   Egypt   Rome  
  • I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

    "The Real Thomas Jefferson".
  • A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

    Lying   Men   Egypt  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10
  • The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome.

    Art   Philosophy   Ideas  
  • When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

    Fall   Rome   World  
    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 145
  • Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!

    Children   Home   School  
  • O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines When the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the Sophist's schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

    Country   Stars   Home  
  • I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

    Music   Wise   Drinking  
    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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