Esaias Tegner Quotes

• A woman's honor rests on manly love.

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  Women, Honor, Manly

  Esaias Tegnér (1876). “Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance”, p.78

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• Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart.

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  Beautiful, Truth, Heart

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• In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you cannot clearly say, you don't know:To tongue of man his thought brings word:What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely.

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  Men, Tongue, Sun

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• We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.

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  Art, Son, Light

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• A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

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  Justice, Noble, Fancy

  Esaias Tegnér (1876). “Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance”, p.79

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• A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.

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  Wise, Father, Son

  Esaias Tegnér (1876). “Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance”, p.41

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• O, if so much beauty doth reveal
  Itself in every vein of life and nature,
  How beautiful must be the Source itself,
  The Ever Bright One.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Veins

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