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Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae, Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.]

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

A rose-red city half as old as Time.

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture.

God made the country, and man made the town.

No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

In the busy haunts of men.

Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.

Every man cannot go to Corinthum. [Lat., Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum.]

Even cities have their graves!

Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth, nor blest abode But the hope, the burning hope, and the road, the lonely road. Not for us are content, and quiet, and peace of mind, For we go seeking cities that we shall never find.

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain. [Lat., Nisi Dominus frustra.]

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot; . . . . Though the latitude's rather uncertain, And the longitude also is vague, The persons I pity who know not the City The beautiful City of Prague.