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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
Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.
thomas gray— 1751Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.13-20.
Si vis me flere, dolendum est Primum ipse tibi. If you wish me to shed tears you must first feel pain yourself.
— Ars Poetica, l.102-3.
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
john milton— 1637 Lycidas, l.142-51. rathe = early.
As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.
james freeman clarke— P. 328. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
thomas moore— Preface to Corruption and Intolerance.
We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood…. So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
robert mugabe— Speech at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg (2 September 2002), quoted in John Battersby and Andrew Grice, "Anti-West anger at summit as Mugabe rounds on Blair", The Independent, 3 September 2002, p. 1.
The tasks are done and the tears are shed.Yesterday’s errors let yesterday cover;Yesterday’s wounds, which smarted and bled,Are healed with the healing that night has shed.
sarah chauncey woolsey— New Every Morning, (date of publication uncertain).
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.
thomas gray— St. 5. (Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1742))
The whole of this studio is bonded; that is to say, we are not officially in Japan per se, but rather, in what is considered for these purposes an adjunct of the customs shed at Narita airport. Officially, we are not here because we are pornographic. It's a rather curious situation.
Peter Greenaway— During the filming of Prospero's Books, quoted in an interview in American Film, Nov/Dec 1991
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
theodore roosevelt— Speech at Springfield, Illinois (4 July 1903).
The time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law, for it is one of the laws of that kingdom where our Father dwells, that if a man was found guilty of adultery, he must have his blood shed, and that is near at hand. But now I say, in the name of the Lord, that if this people will sin no more, but faithfully live their religion, their sins will be forgiven them without taking life.
Brigham Young— Journal of Discourses 4:219 (Feb. 8, 1857)
She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking; But there is something when man's eye appears Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto V, Stanza 118.
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 2, line 173.
Why let a wolf into a cattle shed?
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
Not all the drops the human eye can shed will ever quench the fires or blot out the guilt of sin. Do not, I pray you, be deceived on this point; do not permit yourselves to harbor the delusion that the rain-showers from your beclouded eyes can ever fertilize the barren soul, and cause it to blossom as the rose.
— George C. Lorimer, p. 506. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The humble rosemary Whose sweets so thanklessly are shed To scent the desert and the dead.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), "Light of the Harem", reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 682.
If a man decides he wants to be circumcised, just as if a woman decides she’d prefer a different cup size, then it’s a decision they should be free to make – but only when old enough to make the decision.
— Michael Marshal, Merseyside Skeptics Society, July 2011
As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the Gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.
james freeman clarke— James Freeman Clarke, Self-Culture: Physical, Intellectual, Moral, and Spiritual – A Course of Lectures (1880), Chapter 19: Education of Hope, p. 411
— A variant, "As these summer days have roused all nature..." (with other minor alterations) appears as the entry for July 12 in Messages of Faith, Hope, and Love: Selections for Every Day in the Year from the Sermons and Writings of James Freeman Clarke (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1895), p. 180
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1742), Stanza 5
On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words .
— line 82.
It is only for those to employ force who possess strength without judgment; but the well advised will have recourse to other means. Besides, he who pretends to carry his point by force hath need of many associates; but the man who can persuade knows that he is himself sufficient for the purpose; neither can such a one be supposed forward to shed blood; for, who is there would choose to destroy a fellow citizen rather than make a friend of him by mildness and persuasion?
— Memorabilia of Socrates Bk. 1, ch. 2, as translated by Sarah Fielding in The Whole Works of Xenophon (1840), p. 523
[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.
I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I Pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.
— Who: Louis XVI of France, d. January 21, 1793
— Note: Executed by guillotine
