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Epic poem101 quotes
Fortune favors the brave. — Virgil · 19 BCAbandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BCZeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. — Homer · 700 BCAmong all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards. — Homer · 700 BCOf all the creatures that breathe and move across the earth, there is nothing feebler than man. — Homer · 700 BCAll 101 quotes →Religious literature45 quotes
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Long is the way
And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light. — John Milton · 1667O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate:
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost. — John Milton · 1667All 45 quotes →Narrative poem41 quotes
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri · 1321When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Haste denies all acts their dignity. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. — William Shakespeare · 1593Thence we came forth to see the stars again. — Dante Alighieri · 1321All 41 quotes →Philosophical literature30 quotes
And with the guts of the last priest
Let's wring the neck of the last king. — Denis Diderot · 1772No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake · 1793The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake · 1793The cistern contains: the fountain overflows. — William Blake · 1794For every thing that lives is Holy. — William Blake · 1794Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882All 30 quotes →Didactic poem21 quotes
Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows. — Hesiod · 700 BCLife is one long struggle in the dark. — Lucretius · 55 BCAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. — Lucretius · 55 BCHe harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. — Hesiod · 700 BCIf you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big. — Hesiod · 700 BCThe ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone. — Lucretius · 55 BCAll 21 quotes →Satire5 quotes
Great wits are sure to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. — John Dryden · 1681For who can be secure of private right,
If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?
Nor is the people's judgement always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few. — John Dryden · 1681All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. — Juvenal · 100Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few. — John Dryden · 1681Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 'twill be found upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation. — Daniel Defoe · 1701Political literature4 quotes
Who built the Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?...
Where, the evening that the wall of China was finished
Did the masons go? — Bertolt Brecht · 1936What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand? — James Bramston · 1729While classes exist no one is free.
We are not born to be slaves or to be masters.
We are born to be brothers and sisters.
What is capitalism but buying and selling of people? — Ernesto Cardenal · 1972This happened near the core
Of a world's culture. This
Occurred among higher things.
This was a philosophical conclusion.
Everybody gets what he deserves. — Alan Bold · 1969War poetry3 quotes
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. — Rupert Brooke · 1914They died to save their country and they only saved the world. — G.K. Chesterton · 1922In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school-
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.
When we lasted long enough they gave us medals;
When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." — Randall Jarrell · 1948Children's literature1 quote
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe-
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew. — Eugene Field · 1889Historical literature1 quote
Is the dwelling place of God anywhere but in the earth and sea, the air and sky, and virtue? Why seek we further for deities? Whatever you see, whatever you touch, that is Jupiter. — Lucan · 65Tragedy (play)1 quote
Just are the ways of God,
And justifiable to men;
Unless there be who think not God at all. — John Milton · 1671