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"Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge."
Shakespeare.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!"
Requiescat.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man."
Growing Old.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?"
Memorial Verses.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Wandering between two worlds,--one dead, The other powerless to be born."
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The kings of modern thought are dumb."
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light."
Essays in Criticism. Heinrich Heine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail.""
Culture and Anarchy. P. 8.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain