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“You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.”

“I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,With no meaning, than this bitter one.”

Thinking Giving Remember Sweet Giving Up Bitter Vain Scent Grey

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Edward Thomas (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Edward Thomas (Illustrated)

“Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!”

Night Sweet Delight This Life Vain Folly Melancholy Sweetest

Author:John Fletcher

“Sweet is true love, though given in vain.”

Love Given Sweet Vain

Book:Idylls of the King

Source: Idylls of the King

“Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.”

Tears Sweet Vain Queens

Book:Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

“O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past”

Men Long Ends Pain Lasts Past Attention Sun Dying Youth Taught Sweet Taste Harmony Tongue Breathe Setting Settings Vain Ease Sweetest Scarce

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.”

Love Pain Given Sweet True Love Vain Sweet Love

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

“No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he’d keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing.”

Needs Looks Persons Eye Used Attention Dog Mines Sweet Asking Like Me Vain Wasting Time My Dog Reserved Me Alone Gazing

Author:Pablo Neruda