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“The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.”

Reason Play Hands Today Lasts Blood Flow Shed Doom Crops Riot Lambs Skip

Book:The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings

Source: The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings

“The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of democracy and freedom.”

People Values Democracy Blood Tradition Ancient Relate Greek Shed

Author:Alexis Tsipras

“I'm not going to let Donald Trump take away from our community, something that Fannie Lou Hamer shed blood to give us. Something that Ella Jo Baker braved conditions in the South and sweatshops in Harlem to give us.”

Giving Community Blood Conditions Trump South Shed Our Community Bakers Harlem Sweatshops

Author:Van Jones

“The American people have on many occasions been willing to shed their own blood for a noble cause, like when hundreds of thousands of Americans participated in the fight against fascism in Europe, and other causes. There are many good people there, and the Cuban people know the American people, we have many examples of solidarity from the American people in every stage of the Cuban people's fight for independence.”

People Knows Fighting Causes Blood Stage Example Willing Europe Independence Noble Occasions Good People Fascism Shed Solidarity Cuban Noble Causes

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.”

Christ Blood Philosophical Kingdoms Shed Agnostic

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”

Men Country Enough Given Deals Blood Patriotism Good Enough Squares Shed Patriot

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.”

Ifs Giving Enough Blood Son Virtuous Shed

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”

“From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”

Thinking World Speak Blood Conditions Brother Bed Band England Saint Gentle Remembered Gentleman My Brother This Day Shed Manhood Renaissance Man

Author:William Shakespeare

“Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood.”

Giving Hands Light Form Blood Poet Approach Models Angel Gold Shed Muse Leafs Folds Laurels Recess

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears we caused by forgetting Thy love. Forgive us, Lord, for the curse we falsely attributed to their name as Jews. Forgive us for crucifying Thee a second time in their flesh. For we knew not what we did.”

Names Forget Lord Blood Century Tears Brother Mark Forgiving Jew Flesh Thee Curse Shed Foreheads Cain Abel

Author:Pope John XXIII

“Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”

Men Doe Pain Suffering Sides Grief Struggle Blood Tears Particular Creatures Accounts Fellows Wounds Breasts Shed Anguish Another Man Pouring

Book:The Man in the Iron Mask

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

“Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!”

Long Whole Stories Joy Song Water Blood Sea Sorrow Ocean Singing Glory Tragedy Shame Ancient Hunger Tales Feds Twelve Shed Long Ago Unending Weaving

Book:Deep Wizardry

Source: Deep Wizardry