“Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Saddle the Hippogriffs, ye Muses nine,
And straight we'll ride to the land of old Romance.”
— Christoph Martin Wieland, book Oberon
Noch einmahl sattelt mir den Hippogryfen, ihr Musen,<br>Zum Ritt ins alte romantische Land! <br class="br">Oberon, Song 1, st. 1 (1780) http://www.archive.org/stream/oberon02187gut/7ober10.txt; translation from Frederick Metcalfe History of German Literature (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1858) p. 109.
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I have my freedom but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
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