Virgil Quotes

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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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Three times they endeavoured to pile Ossa on Pelion, no less, and to roll leafy Olympus on top of Ossa; three times our Father broke up the towering mountains with a thunderbolt.

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

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Time bears away all things, even our minds.

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

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

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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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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

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Come, see what pleasures in our plains abound:
The woods, the fountains, and the flow'ry ground:
As you are beauteous, were you half so true,
Here could I live, and love, and die with only you.

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There is but one safety to the vanquished—to hope not safety.

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

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

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

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Such hopes I had indeed, while Heaven was kind.

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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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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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Deep in her breast lives the silent wound.

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Each warrior from his own good lance
Shall reap the fruit of toil or chance.

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From the great Father of the Gods above
My Muse begins: For all is full of Jove.

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These words he spoke, but spoke not from his heart;
His outward smiles conceal'd his inward smart.

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