
Lines on his Promised Pension; reported in Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, vol ii, page 379, and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
III, lines 75-78, John Dryden, trans.
Satires, Satire III
Lines on his Promised Pension; reported in Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, vol ii, page 379, and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
DB inscription http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#db1, COLUMN 4, 63. (4.61-7.)
As quoted in North Atlantic Assembly Political Committee Report (1990), p. 7.
“Nor power nor pleasure e'er can be enjoyed,
What time they with suspicion are alloyed.”
Ne la grandezza giova ne 'l diletto,
Che s'acquista o si tenga con sospetto.
XXXVII, 29
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.”
"From a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton", line 21. (1782).
晉譯華嚴經疏序 Hwaeomgyeong so seo (Preface to the Commentary on the Jin Translation of the Flower Ornament Sutra)
Translated by A. Charles Muller.
The Secret of the Machines, Stanza 7.
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Context: But remember, please, the Law by which we live,
We are not built to comprehend a lie,
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive,
If you make a slip in handling us you die!
We are greater than the Peoples or the Kings—
Be humble, as you crawl beneath our rods!—
Our touch can alter all created things,
We are everything on earth—except The Gods!
“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”