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“Song forbids victorious deeds to die.”

Song Dies Deeds

Book:Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life

Source: Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life

“Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.”

World Firsts Stills Past Dies Strong Fate Worst Victim Leaving Deeds Curse Hopeless Prime

Book:Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

Source: Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

“The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.”

Men Country Matter Done Dies Memories Common Fame Brave Deeds Noble Glorious Heritage Multitudes Posterity Brave Man Renown Good Service Common Knowledge Noble Deeds

Book:The Histories

Source: The Histories

“For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.”

Men Should Earth Lasts Hate Dies Fate Failing Tasks Deeds Boast Spun

Book:The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes

Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes

“A good deed hidden in silence dies.”

Dies Silence Deeds Good Deeds

Author:Pindar

“And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]”

Night Dies Stars Rounds Deeds Rings Crowded

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.”

Firsts Lasts Dies Hours Mankind Deeds Valiant

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.”

Humanity Dies Study Deeds Creeds

Book:Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

“The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

Ifs Dies Turns Sweet Summer Flow Dignity Deeds Smell Weed Sweetest Lilies Infection Frailty

Author:William Shakespeare

“To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Two Happens Dies Evil Return Victory Deeds Triumph New Life Theologian Perpetrators Protestantism Infusion

Book:The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

Source: The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

“Im not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.”

Thinking Want Persons I Can Dies Shoes Deeds Immortal Wanting To Die

Author:Mithun Chakraborty