9 quotes found
“Surely time past is gone by like a shadow.”
“This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.”
“These things hath Fate brought to pass, and we be but Fate's whipping-tops bandied what way she will.”
“Thunder and blood and night must usurp our parts, to complete and make up the catastrophe of this great piece.”
“Where were all heroical parts but in Helteranius? and a man might make a garment for the moon sooner than fit the o'erleaping actions of great Jalcanaius, who now leaveth but his body to bedung tha...”
“He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. ...”
“Surely, he said, the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdoms fount. They are deep in time. They...”
“But because day at her dawning hours hath so bewitched me, must I yet love her when glutted with triumph she settles to garish noon? . . . Who dares call me turncoat, who do but follow now as I hav...”
“Surely,” he said, “the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom’s fount. They are deep in time. T...”
