#marble

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. ↗

— Augustus

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You Just scared me half to death," I said. "You should be thrilled you're halfway there. ↗

— Rae Hachton

#gothic-romance #marcus-marble #pretty-in-black #rae-hachton #young-adult-series

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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Life is made up of marble and mud. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#made #marble #mud #up

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#education #marble #sculpture #soul

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. ↗

— William C. Bryant

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You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. ↗

— Camille Claudel

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