“So great the Task to raise the Roman State!”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“So hard and huge a task it was to found the Roman people.”
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 33 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
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Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BCRelated quotes
“Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.”
Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym
Source: White Witch, Black Curse
“Tis a hard task this, not to sacrifice manners to wealth.”
Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores.
Martial book Epigrammata
XI, 5 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“And though hard be the task,
"Keep a stiff upper lip."”
Phoebe Cary (1824–1871) American writer
Keep a stiff upper Lip, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Dana Gioia (1950) American writer
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Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
As quoted in The Medical Record No. 674 (6 October 1883); also in And I Quote : The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, p. 447