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"The world knows nothing of its greatest men."
Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine."
Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow 's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity."
Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,-- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore."
Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages."
Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain