Virgil Quotes

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I yield to Fate, unwillingly retire,
And, loaded, up the hill convey my sire.

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Good speed to your youthful valor, boy! So shall you scale the stars!

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A wet summer and a fine winter should be the farmer's prayer.

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He prays to the spirit of the place and to Earth, the first of the gods, and to the Nymphs and as yet unknown rivers.

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Like rock engirdled by the sea,
Like rock immovable is he.

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Nor can we struggle or resist;
Come, let us bow to Fortune's sway,
And, as she beckons, shape our way.

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We fear not more the winds and wintry cold,
Than streams the banks, or wolves the bleating fold.

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Along the illimitable shade
Darkling and lone their way they made,
Through the vast kingdom of the dead,
An empty void, though tenanted.

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Ah Corydon, Corydon, what madness has caught you?

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No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.

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Towards the ferry and the shore
The multitudinous phantoms pour;
Matrons, and men, and heroes dead,
And boys and maidens, yet unwed,
And youths who funeral fires have fed
Before their parents' eye.

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Starting with a bound, He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground: Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow.

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It's not in my power to decide such a great dispute between you.

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"Must I die," she said,
"And unreveng'd? 'tis doubly to be dead!
Yet even this death with pleasure I receive:
On any terms, 'tis better than to live."

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Each in pathetic suppliance stands,
So may he first be ferried o'er,
And stretches out his helpless hands
In yearning for the further shore.

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If men and mortal arms ye slight,
Know there are gods who watch o'er right.

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Who are you running from, you crazy man?…Even gods have lived in the woods like me.

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A loftier task the bard essays:
The horizon broadens on his gaze.

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A sad thing is a wolf in the fold, rain on ripe corn, wind in the trees, the anger of Amaryllis.

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But the race remains immortal, the fortune of the house stands firm for many years, and the grandfathers' grandfathers are numbered in the roll.
Of a community of bees

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Then thus the bride: What fury seized on thee,
Unhappy man! to lose thyself and me?
Dragged back again by cruel destinies,
An iron slumber shuts my swimming eyes.
And now farewell! Involved in shades of night,
For ever I am ravish'd from thy sight.
In vain I reach my feeble hands to join
In sweet embraces—ah! no longer thine!

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If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

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Turnus, what never god would dare
To promise to his suppliant's prayer,
Lo here, the lapse of time has brought
E'en to your hands, unasked, unsought.

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In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolored sickness, anxious labor, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

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As long as rivers shall run down to the sea, or shadows touch the mountain slopes, or stars graze in the vault of heaven, so long shall your honor, your name, your praises endure.

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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

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Unspeakable, O Queen, is the sorrow you bid me renew.

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The proffered medicine but provoked the pain.

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Fortunate too is the man who has come to know the gods of the countryside.

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And no less happy he who knows the rural gods.

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