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Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
1st Baron— 1845 'A Jacobite's Epitaph', closing lines.
This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.
fred thompson— Charles Hurt (August 18, 2007). "NOT-YET-RUNNING THOMPSON STUMPS IN IOWA". New York Post. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.
— Manuel Gonzalez Prada, Horas de lucha, 1908.
Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.
ilana mercer— "Beware of Liberals in Libertarian Drag" WorldNetDaily.com, November 7, 2013.
Sweet April! Many a thought is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed. Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, life's golden fruit is shed.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, An April Day, Stanza 8.
But pleasures are like poppies spread You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river A moment white then melts forever.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter (1790) Line 59
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute onTara's walls As if that soul were fled.
thomas moore— 1807 Irish Melodies,'The Harp that once through Tara's Halls'.
I went out to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn and quarteredwhich was done therehe looking as cheerfully as any man could do in that condition? Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at Whitehall and to see the first blood shed in revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross.
Samuel Pepys— 1660 Diary entry,13 Oct.
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
Heinrich Heine— As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 60
On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.
hesiod— line 82.
Listen, buds, it's March twenty first;Don't you know enough to burst?Come on, birds, unlock your throats!Come on, gardeners, shed your coats!
ogden nash— Spring Song
The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition.
kenzaburō Ōe— Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1994)
A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. Nearly everything that encloses space on a scale sufficient for a human being to move in is a building; the term architecture applies only to buildings designed with a view to aesthetic appeal.
nikolaus pevsner— An Outline of European Architecture (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1942] 1957), p. 23.
I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law.
thomas jefferson— Letter to papal nuncio Count Dugnani (14 February 1818).
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tyger , one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security. And upon this is grounded the great law of Nature, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."
john locke— Second Treatise of Civil Government, Ch. II, sec. 11
I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
jean-paul sartre— Act 3, sc. 5
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head!
walter scott— Canto II, stanza 22.
When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— When the Lamp is Shattered, st. 1 (1822).
As when the moon , refulgent lamp of night , O'er heaven 's clear azure spreads her sacred light , When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies.
— Homer, in The Iliad as translated by Alexander Pope, Book VIII, line 687
The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, Eton College, Stanza 5.
[Su Wu] relates how he shed tears during this separation, and urges his wife to remember their first love. He vows to return to her if he survives his ordeal, but if he dies first, then he hopes she will remember him with love. The courtly tone of his message to his wife, and his expression of integrity are mirrored in Su Wu's political life. In captivity he was offered the chance of liberty if he renounced his country, but he refused to become a traitor, for which he was honoured on his return.
— Anne Birrell, in Games Poets Play: Readings in Medieval Chinese Poetry (2004), p. 239
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
— Poem Heraclitus
And leaves of that shy plant, (Her flowers were shed) the lily of the vale, That loves the ground, and from the sun withholds Her pensive beauty; from the breeze her sweets.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), Book IX, line 540.
[Christ of Revelation] comes forth as one who no longer seeks either friendship or love … His garments are dipped in blood, the blood of others. He descends that he may shed the blood of men.
— Isaac Haldemann, quoted by Karen Armstrong (2007) in The Bible: A Biography, p. 209.
Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.
— "Beware of Liberals in Libertarian Drag" WorldNetDaily.com, November 7, 2013.
Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.
George Crabbe— George Crabbe, Inebriety.
The harp that once through Tara's halls the soul of music shed, now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, as if that soul were fled.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Harp That Once.
You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach— Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self (1998)
