John Addington Symonds quotes
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“It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.”
-- John Addington SymondsSource : John Addington Symonds (1968). “The Letters of John Addington Symonds: 1869-1884”
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“Straight is the way to Acheron, Whether the spirit's race is run From Athens or from Meroe: Weep not, far from home to die; The wind doth blow in every sky That wafts us to that doleful sea.”
-- John Addington SymondsSource : John Addington Symonds (1871). “Miscellanies”, p.412
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“These things shall be! A loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise, With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes.”
-- John Addington SymondsSource : Hymn
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“No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.”
-- John Addington SymondsSource : John Addington Symonds (1882). “Animi Figura”
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Source : "The Oxford Book of English Verse". Book edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Introduction, 1900.
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Source : Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books
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“Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.”
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“Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.”
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“No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.”
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