Virgil Quotes

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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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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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Calling the great gods cruel, and cruel the stars of the sky.

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And no less happy he who knows the rural gods.

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So travelers in a forest move
With but the uncertain moon above,
Beneath her niggard light.

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

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The proffered medicine but provoked the pain.

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

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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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By length of time
The scurf is worn away of each committed crime;
No speck is left of their habitual stains,
But the pure ether of the soul remains.

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Deep in her breast lives the silent wound.

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Thrice round her neck my eager arms I threw;
Thrice from my empty arms the phantom flew,
Swift as the wind, with momentary flight,
Swift as a fleeting vision of the night.

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Here I am! Here I am! I am the one who did it! Aim your weapons at me!

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Such hopes I had indeed, while Heaven was kind.

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To sing thy praise, would heaven my breath prolong,
Infusing spirits worthy such a song.

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Think you these tears, this pompous train of woe,
Are known or valued by the ghosts below?

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Curst Love! what lengths of tyrant scorn
Wreak'st not on those of woman born?

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How greatly changed from that Hector who came back arrayed in the armour of Achilles!

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Time bears away all things, even our minds.

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Fate, and the dooming gods, are deaf to tears.

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This gift which parents to their children owe,
This unavailing gift, at least, I may bestow!

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Thus having said, she turn'd, and made appear
Her neck refulgent, and disheveled hair,
Which, flowing from her shoulders, reached the ground,
And widely spread ambrosial scents around.
In length of train descends her sweeping gown;
And by her graceful walk the Queen of Love is known.

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A great fire, unless you feed it, spends its rage in vain.

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