4 Quotes & Sayings By Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray (1866–1939) was one of the most influential British playwrights of the twentieth century, and wrote some of the most successful and innovative plays of his day. He was also a notable philosopher, literary critic, and political activist. His major works include William Shakespeare (1910), The Common Sense of Theater (1911), The Poems of Appreciation (1912), Poems of Life (1918), Poems of Life (1921), Poems of Life (1932), Poems of Life (1934), Poems of Life (1936), Poems of Life (1937), Poems of Life (1939).

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They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up its persecutors and its martyrs, its hates and slanders and aspirations and heroisms, to the arms of that great Silence whose secrets they all claimed so loudly to have read. Even the dogmas for which they fought might seem to be dead too. For if Julian and Sallustius, Gregory and John Chrysostom, were to rise again and see the world as it now is, they would probably feel their personal differences melt away in comparison with the vast difference between their world and this. They fought to the death about this credo and that, but the same spirit was in all of them. . Gilbert Murray
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Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest. Gilbert Murray
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Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours? Gilbert Murray