Quotes about relics, page 4
On Shakespeare
What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a star-ypointing pyramid?
Dear son of Memory, great heir of fame,
What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name?
Thou in our wonder and astonishment
Hast built thyself a live-long monument.
For whilst to th’ shame of slow-endeavouring art,
Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart
Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book
Those Delphic lines with deep impression took,
Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving,
Dost make us marble with too much conceiving;
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
poem by John Milton (1630)
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It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
quote by Iris Chang
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Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.
quote by Sarah Vowell
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Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.
quote by Henry Waxman
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Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
quote by Marc Maron
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We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
quote by Heinrich Schliemann
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Malice
Malicious people are in states of anger due to malice,
Your relics and magical artifacts concern those callous.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Envoy
Prince, show me the quickest way and best
To gain the subject of my moan;
We've neither spinsters nor relics out West--
These do I love, and these alone.
poem by Eugene Field
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It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
quote by Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Conjurer of Relics
There he laid, a conjurer of relics,
There he laid, a fire born phoenix,
There he lay upon the shelf
Wondering how he hurt himself.
Burnt through cinders embers glow
Knowing all there is to know,
Revealing all there is to show.
poem by David Lacey
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