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Antiquity

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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield)

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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!

Christopher Marlowe

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Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.

Francis Bacon

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I stood there in the whirling summer,
My hand capped a withered heart,
And thought of China and of Greece,
Of Alexander in his tent;
Of Montaigne in his tower,
Of Saint Theresa in her wild lament.

Richard Eberhart

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Let others sing of knights and paladins
In aged accents and untimely words.

Samuel Daniel

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