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Letter "G" » Greece
«I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.»
Author: Giorgos Seferis
| Keywords:
academies, academy, Academy A, Greece, manifest, solidarity, Swedish, The academy, wished
«O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance»
Author: Hipponax the Satirist
| About:
Conquest,
Courage,
Leadership,
Perseverance
| Keywords:
armies, brilliant, combined, Greece, The City, Troy
«If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest»
Author: Simonides
| About:
Death and dying,
Fortune,
Honor,
Nobility,
Virtue
| Keywords:
blest, Crown of Glory, Greece
«Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action»
«Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts / And eloquence.»
«Greece, sound thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, / But England's Milton equals both in fame.»
«And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece, / And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
abode, exhortation, exhortations, Greece, Jews, Macedonia, purposed, Syria, three parts
«In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.»
«I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world»
«Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live...»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
arisen, a million times, blast, carried, civilizations, cohort, cohorts, dares, deluge, deluges, earlier, embattled, existed, followed, gloom, Greece, groaned, groans, history of ideas, India, intense, march, marched, modern history, modern times, orphans, peacefully, peer, peering, prevailed, soak, soaked, The Deluge, thousand million, tradition, trumpets, until now, wailed, widowed, widows, world record
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