“Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.”
Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia
An unnamed goddess
The Queen of Attolia (2000)
Villa Franca.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.”
Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia
An unnamed goddess
The Queen of Attolia (2000)
Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879) British poet and hymn-writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 599.
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
Answer to the Conference at the Committee at Whitehall, Second Protectorate Parliament (13 April 1657), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 504
Han Fei (-279–-232 BC) Chinese philosopher
國無常強,無常弱。奉法者強則國強,奉法者弱則國弱。
Source: "On Having Standards", in Han Feizi: Basic Writings (2003)
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
The Past http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page143, st. 1 (1828)
“Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Part II, section 1.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)