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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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=Atheism.=

By night an atheist half believes a God.
115
YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night v., Line 176.


=Athens.=

Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul?
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were
First in the race that led to glory's goals
They won, and pass'd away.
116
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto ii., St. 2.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.
117
MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iv., Line 240.


=Attempt.=

The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us.
118
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.
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