Virgil Quotes

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Tityrus, you who lie under cover of the spreading beech-tree, you are practising your pastoral music on a thin stalk.

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Now dam the ditches, and the floods restrain:
Their moisture has already drench'd the plain.

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We Trojans are at an end, Ilium has ended and the vast glory of the Trojans.

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How altered from the man we knew,
Our Hector, who from day's long toil
Comes radiant in Achilles' spoil.

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Be this your nobler praise in times to come,
These your imperial arts, ye sons of Rome!
O'er distant realms to stretch your awful sway,
To bid those nations tremble and obey;
To crush the proud, the suppliant foe to rear,
To give mankind a peace, or shake the world with war.

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Round the wide world in banishment we roam,
Forced from our pleasing fields and native home.

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That happy place, the green groves of the dwelling of the blest.

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Who knows what changeful fortune may produce?

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Now, prostrate by an unmeant wound,
In death he welters on the ground,
And gazing on Italian skies
Of his loved Argos dreams, and dies.

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Frogs in the marsh mud drone their old lament.

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Sweet Parthenope nourished me, flourishing in studies of ignoble ease.

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My next desire is, void of care and strife,
To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life:
A country cottage near a crystal flood,
A winding valley, and a lofty wood.

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Sighs, groans, and tears, proclaim his inward pains,
But the firm purpose of his heart remains.

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Let me be suffered to extend
Compassion to a hapless friend.

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For God the whole created mass inspires:
Through heaven and earth and ocean's depth he throws
His influence round, and kindles as he goes.

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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

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Despair, and rage, and love divide her heart;
Despair and rage had some, but love the greater part.

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O Meliboeus, it is a god that has made this peaceful life for us.

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I was amazed, my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck in my throat.

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A woman is always a fickle, unstable thing.

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Nay, had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and voice of iron, I could not sum up all the forms of crime, or rehearse all the tales of torments.

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In wild confusion sways the crowd:
Each takes his side and all are loud.

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If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move Hell.

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There in the bottom of the pit
Sits Theseus, and will ever sit.

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Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

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Him through the fire these shoulders bore,
And from the heart of battle tore.

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The trees are cloth'd with leaves, the fields with grass;
The blossoms blow; the birds on bushes sing;
And Nature has accomplish'd all the spring.

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Time, toil, and circumstance full oft
A humbled cause have raised aloft,
And Fortune whom she mocked before
Has placed on solid ground once more.

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Wars, horrid wars, I view—a field of blood,
And Tiber rolling with a purple flood.

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Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,
And Death glares grim in many a form.

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