John Conington: Quotes about God

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“Comrades and friends! for ours is strength
Has brooked the test of woes;
O worse-scarred hearts! these wounds at length
The Gods will heal, like those.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 12

“The gods implore
To crush the proud and elevate the poor.”

Source: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 180

“If men and mortal arms ye slight,
Know there are gods who watch o'er right.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 27

“Snatch him, ye Gods, from mortal eyes!”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 101

“No, trust the Muse: she opes the good man's grave,
And lifts him to the gods.”

Book IV, ode viii
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

“O ye Gods, and O great Jove,
Have pity on a father's love
And hear Evander's prayer:
If 'tis your purpose to restore
My Pallas to my arms once more;
If living is to see his face,
Then grant me life, of your dear grace:
No toil too hard to bear.
But ah! if Fortune be my foe,
And meditate some crushing blow,
Now, now the thread in mercy break,
While hope sees dim and cares mistake,
While still I clasp thee darling boy,
My latest and my only joy,
Nor let assurance, worse than fear,
With cruel tidings wound my ear.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VIII, p. 295