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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.
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.
Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.
steve allen— Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio: Raising Standards of Popular Culture (2001), ISBN 1615927514, p. 344
[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.
giacomo casanova— Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1 (Venetian Years), chap. 14
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.
Trench stinks of shallow buried dead Where Tom stands at the periscope, Tired out. After nine months he’s shed All fear, all faith, all hate, all hope.
robert graves— "Through the Periscope" (1915) [first published in 1988]
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.
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood Over thy wounds now do I prophesy.
— Julius Caesar, Act III, scene 1, line 254.
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.
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))
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls,Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
thomas moore— Oh Breathe Not His Name, st. 1.
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.
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 Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
isaac leib peretz— Bildung, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 14.
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)
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it. For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."
— New Testament, Matthew 26: 27-28.
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.
Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it, No, not a shred of it, In all the spread of it, From foot to head, But heroes bled for it, Faced steel and lead for it, Precious blood shed for it, Bathing in red.
John daly— John Daly, A Toast to the Flag.
Why let a wolf into a cattle shed?
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
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.
Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 83.
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
First Amendment rights, applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment, are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
— Abe Fortas, (Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969).
On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words .
— line 82.
[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.
