Theocritus quotes
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“Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.”
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“The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.”
-- TheocritusSource : Theocritus, Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow (1952). “Theocritus”, p.113, Cambridge University Press
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“The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.”
-- TheocritusSource : theocritus “idylls, or, early Greek love lyrics”, Lulu.com
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“Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.”
-- TheocritusSource : Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.127, Delphi Classics
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“Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.”
-- TheocritusSource : Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.128, Delphi Classics
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“Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.”
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“Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.”
-- TheocritusSource : Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics
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“Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.”
-- TheocritusSource : Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics
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“Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.”
-- TheocritusSource : Theocritus, Bion (of Phlossa near Smyrna.), Moschus, Tyrtaeus (1822). “The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus: And the Elegies of Tyrtaeus”, p.31
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“Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.”
-- TheocritusSource : Theocritus (1947). “A Translation of the Idylls of Theocritus”, Cambridge : University Press
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“Trying will do anything in this world.”
-- TheocritusSource : Theocritus (1905). “The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus, Bion and Moschus”
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“Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.”
-- TheocritusSource : Theocritus (1767). “The Idylliums of Theocritus”, p.61
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“Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.”
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“Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.”
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“Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow”
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“Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.”
-- Theocritus
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