Aeschylus Quotes, Fashion Quotes, Eagles Quotes

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

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Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

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The reward of suffering is experience

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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

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Wrong must not win by technicalities.

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When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

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But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.

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Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

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The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

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Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

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It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

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Art is far feebler than necessity.

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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

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