Theocritus Quotes

#1. Cats will always lie soft.

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#2. Man will ever stand in need of man.

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#3. Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

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#4. Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

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#5. Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

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#6. Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

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#7. Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

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#8. All cats love a cushioned couch.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Youth passes like a dream.

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#11. Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

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#12. Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.

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#13. Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

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#14. The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.

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#15. Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

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#16. Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

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#17. Sameron adion aso
I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

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#18. Trying will do anything in this world.

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#19. Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian:
We are but mortals, and must sing of men.

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#20. 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.

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#21. While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none.

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#22. The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.

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#23. Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.

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#24. Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

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