Nova Quotes
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Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes, et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
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Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi! Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you.
St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus— AD 397 Confessions, bk.10, ch.27.
Maybe we’ve been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.
hal clement— Chapter 15 (Mission of Gravity (1954))
Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.
virgil— 'Tis thus that men to heaven aspire:
Go on and raise your glories higher.Line 641 (translated by John Conington).Cf. C. P. Cranch's translation:
Go on, increase in early valor, boy;
Such is the pathway to the starry heights.
Poena tamen praesens, cum tu deponis amictus turgidus et crudum pavonem in balnea portas. hinc subitae mortes atque intestata senectus; it nova nec tristis per cunctas fabula cenas: ducitur iratis plaudendum funus amicis.
juvenal— But you will soon pay for it, my friend, when you take off your clothes, and with distended stomach carry your peacock into the bath undigested! Hence a sudden death, and an intestate old age; the new and merry tale runs the round of every dinner-table, and the corpse is carried forth to burial amid the cheers of enraged friends!I, line 142.
This is a terrific outburst. And since it doesn’t have a tail right now, some observers have confused it with a nova . We’ve had at least two reports of a new star.
brian g. marsden— As quoted in
Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi! et ecce intus eras et ego foris, et ibi te quaerebam.
— X, 27, as translated in Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J. (1980) edited by William J. Kelly
Poena tamen praesens, cum tu deponis amictus turgidus et crudum pavonem in balnea portas. hinc subitae mortes atque intestata senectus; it nova nec tristis per cunctas fabula cenas: ducitur iratis plaudendum funus amicis.
— But you will soon pay for it, my friend, when you take off your clothes, and with distended stomach carry your peacock into the bath undigested! Hence a sudden death, and an intestate old age; the new and merry tale runs the round of every dinner-table, and the corpse is carried forth to burial amid the cheers of enraged friends!
— I, line 142.
Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.
— Cf. C. P. Cranch's translation:
Go on, increase in early valor, boy;
Such is the pathway to the starry heights.
These people have that sort of incandescence, which is peculiar to those who know the meaning of simplicity & humility. They are illumined from within makes them essentially mystical in their sense of life (on the Mason-family in nova Scotia, he stayed during 1935 – 1938 and which he portrayed several times, fh)
marsden hartley— letter to A. Sieglitz, October 28, 1936, Hartley Archive, Yale University, as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 111
nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.
william cobbett— Ch. 2, p. 28
Killing me will not stop nova. (Reznov/Mason: I do not care about nova! My name is Viktor Reznov!) No!
— Who: Dr. Friedrich Steiner
— Note: After Mason (and, Mason believes, Reznov) manages to reach Steiner before Hudson and Weaver, Steiner defiantly says this line before being shot in the head.
In 19th century, as Panjim developed, in 1834 it became known as nova Goa...and in 1843 it was recognized by the Portuguese government as capital of Goa .
— Paul Harding, in “Goa (2003)”, P.111
From Tatamagouche, nova Scotia
— "Death is a debt to Nature due
Which we have paid and so must you."
