„Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway“

„"Although," said he [Cato], "all the world has fallen under one man's sway, although Caesar's legions guard the land, his fleets the sea, and Caesar's troops beset the city gates, yet Cato has a way of escape; with one single hand he will open a wide path to freedom. This sword, unstained and blameless even in civil war, shall at last do good and noble service: the freedom which it could not give to his country it shall give to Cato!“

—  Seneca the Younger, Moral Essays

De Providentia (On Providence), 2.10; translation by John W. Basore
Moral Essays
Добавить примечание: (la) "Licet," inquit, "omnia in unius dicionem concesserint, custodiantur legionibus terrae, classibus maria, Caesarianus portas miles obsideat; Cato qua exeat habet; una manu latam libertati viam faciet. Ferrum istud, etiam civili bello purum et innoxium, bonas tandem ac nobiles edet operas: libertatem, quam patriae non potuit, Catoni dabit.

„Once draw the sword; its burning point shall bring
To thy quick nerves a never-ending sting;
The blood they shed thy weight of wo shall swell,
And their grim ghosts for ever with thee dwell.“

—  Joel Barlow American diplomat 1754 - 1812

The Conspiracy of Kings (1792)
Контексте: Once draw the sword; its burning point shall bring
To thy quick nerves a never-ending sting;
The blood they shed thy weight of wo shall swell,
And their grim ghosts for ever with thee dwell. Learn hence, ye tyrants, ere ye learn too late,
Of all your craft th' inevitable fate.
The hour is come, the world's unclosing eyes
Discern with rapture where its wisdom lies;
From western heav'ns th' inverted Orient springs,
The morn of man, the dreadful night of kings.
Dim, like the day-struck owl, ye grope in light,
No arm for combat, no resource in sight;
If on your guards your lingering hopes repose,
Your guards are men, and men you've made your foes;
If to your rocky ramparts ye repair,
De Launay's fate can tell your fortune there.
No turn, no shift, no courtly arts avail,
Each mask is broken, all illusions fail;
Driv'n to your last retreat of shame and fear,
One counsel waits you, one relief is near :
By worth internal, rise to self-wrought fame,
Your equal rank, your human kindred claim;
'Tis Reason's choice, 'tis Wisdom's final plan,
To drop the monarch and assume the man.

„Thall shall keep thy religion to thy selves.“

—  George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008

„Now gold hath sway; we all obey
And a ruthless king is he;
But he never shall send our ancient friend
To be tost on the stormy sea.“

—  Henry Fothergill Chorley English literary, art and music critic and editor 1808 - 1872

The brave old Oak (lyrics, 1837).

„We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.“

—  Shunroku Hata Japanese general 1879 - 1962

Quoted in "Enter Japan" - "Time Magazine" article - July 8, 1940

„The vast applause shall reach the starry frame,
No years, no ages shall obscure thy fame,
And Earth's last ends shall hear thy darling name.“

—  Marco Girolamo Vida Italian bishop 1485 - 1566

Book III, line 522
De Arte Poetica (1527)
Добавить примечание: (la) Gratantes plausu excipient: tua gloria coelo
Succedet, nomenque tuum sinus ultimus orbis
Audiet, ac nullo diffusum abolebitur aevo.

„The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.“

—  Oliver Goldsmith, книга The Vicar of Wakefield

Источник: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.

„I've watched thee every hour —
I know my mighty sway —
I know my magic power
To drive thy griefs away“

—  Emily Brontë English novelist and poet 1818 - 1848

Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee (May 1841)

„Thy skirts indeed the foe may part,
Thy robe be pierced with sword and dart,
They shall not touch thy noble heart,
Carolina!“

—  Henry Timrod Poet from the American South 1828 - 1867

"Carolina", st. V, 3

„Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.“

—  Edgar Allan Poe American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809 - 1849

" To Frances S. Osgood http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/595/" (1845).
Контексте: Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
Be nothing which thou art not.
So with the world thy gentle ways,
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.

„Strike! Thou the Master, we Thy keys,
The anthem of the destinies!
The minor of Thy loftier strain,
Our hearts shall breathe the old refrain —
"Thy will be done!"“

—  John Greenleaf Whittier American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery 1807 - 1892

Источник: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 513

„I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice“

—  Walter Scott, книга Ivanhoe

Источник: Ivanhoe

„People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.“

—  Edmund Burke, книга Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 274
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

„Blessed Jesus, I am but a lamb, and often fear I shall never be any thing better, but perish as I am. Lord, take me in the arms of Thy power and lay me on the bosom of Thy love; though I am so poor and inconsiderable a creature I will hope in Thy pastoral power and love, that I shall not only continue, but grow, and that Thou wilt one day rejoice in me as one of the flock which Thou hast purchased with Thy own blood.“

—  John Angell James British abolitionist 1785 - 1859

Источник: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 472.

„There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the "end of time," or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed“

—  Thomas Paine, книга Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Контексте: There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the "end of time," or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it; and therefore all such clauses, acts or declarations by which the makers of them attempt to do what they have neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow.

„Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt
I knew thee, in thy glorious youth,
And loved thy vast face, white as truth“

—  Joaquin Miller American judge 1837 - 1913

Epigraph, Ch. 1 : Mount Shasta; this appears as "To Mount Shasta" in In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890), p. 126
Variant: I saw the lightning's gleaming rod
Reach forth and write upon the sky
The awful autograph of God.
This variant was cited as being in The Ship in the Desert in the 10th edition of Familiar Quotations (1919) by John Bartlett, but this appears to be an incorrect citation of a misquotation first found in The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1910), edited by Elizabeth Bislande, p. 161.
Shadows of Shasta (1881)
Контексте: Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt
I knew thee, in thy glorious youth,
And loved thy vast face, white as truth;
I stood where thunderbolts were wont
To smite thy Titan-fashioned front,
And heard dark mountains rock and roll;
I saw the lightning's gleaming rod
Reach forth and write on heaven's scroll
The awful autograph of God!

„I shall be thy name in Christ as I emerge through these walls in vein“

—  Elizabeth I of England Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603 1533 - 1603

The Golden Speech (1601)

„5291. Trust thy self only, and another shall not betray thee.“

—  Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

„Flame unto flame shall flow and be
Within thy heart and mine as one.“

—  George William Russell Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867 - 1935

By Still Waters (1906)
Контексте: When the lips I breathed upon
Asked for such love as equals claim
I looked where all the stars were gone
Burned in the day's immortal flame.
"Come thou like yon great dawn to me
From darkness vanquished, battles done:
Flame unto flame shall flow and be
Within thy heart and mine as one.".