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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.
[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.
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
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired thesunwithtalking and sent himdownthesky.
William originally WilliamJohnson Cory— 1858 Ionica, Poems,'Heraclitus', his translationof an epigram by Callimachus.
Just as I am, without one plea But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that Thou bid'st me come toThee, O Lamb of God, I come!
Charlotte Elliott— 1834 Invalid's Hymn Book,'Just As I Am'.
Thou our throbbing flesh hast worn;Thou our mortal griefs hast borne;Thou hast shed the human tear;Jesus, Son of Mary, hear!
henry hart milman— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 94.
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 oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.
mahmud tarzi— An Afghan Intellect, by Yama Atta & Hashmat Haidari
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
teresa of Ávila (teresa de jesús)— As quoted in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes (1992) by Carolyn Warner
The Gothick girl regarded Bobby with mild interest but no flash of human recognition whatever, as though she were seeing an ad for a product she’d heard of but had no intention of buying.
william ford gibson— Ch. 6 (Count Zero (1986))
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]
My fire was in all its glory about midnight, and, having made a bark shed to shelter me from the rain and partially dry my clothing, I had nothing to do but look and listen and join the trees in their hymns and prayers.
john muir— Travels in Alaska (1915), chapter 2: Alexander Archipelago and the Home I Found in Alaska
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.
Hands, do what you’re bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed.
William Butler Yeats— The Balloon Of The Mind
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
— Numbers 35:33.
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.
A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.
— Manuscript of Alberic, Monk of Monte-Cassino. Found in an article on Dante. Selections from Edinburgh Review, Volume I, p. 67.
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.
A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Day Dream.
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”
— Kenneth Grahame, in The Wind in the Willows p.206
Remember when you were more easily led Behind the cricket pavillion and the bicycle shed Trembling as your dreams came true You looked up into those blue eyes and knew It was love, and now you can't pretend You've forgotten all the promises of that first friend...
— Pet Shop Boys, "Up Against It"
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.
O sweetest of all the flowrets That bloom where angels tread! But never such marvelous odor, From heliotrope was shed.
— E. C. Stedman, Heliotrope, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 362.
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).
