Virgil - Gods Quotes

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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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The gods, if gods to goodness are inclined;
If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind,
And, more than all the gods, your generous heart.
Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

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Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight,
Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,
Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate
The mystic wonders of your silent state!

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

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

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Passion surging past control
Plays the god to each one's soul.

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

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

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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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High praises, endless honors, you have won,
And mighty trophies, with your worthy son!
Two gods a silly woman have undone!

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O you who have borne even heavier things, God will grant an end to these too.

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"Loose me," he cry'd, "'twas impudence to find
A sleeping god, 'tis sacrilege to bind."

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Full in the midst of this infernal road,
An Elm displays her dusky arms abroad;
The God of Sleep there hides his heavy head
And empty dreams on every leaf are spread.

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You have suffered worse things; God will put an end to these also.

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O fatherland, O Ilium home of the gods, O Troy walls famed in battle!

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I sing of arms and the man who first from the shores of Troy came destined an exile to Italy and the Lavinian beaches, a man much buffeted on land and on the deep by force of the gods because of fierce Juno's never-forgetting anger.

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