Vol. III
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 1 (1776)
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet
Mir ist verspert der sælden tor<br>dâ stên ich als ein weise vor<br>mich hilfet niht swaz ich dar an geklopfe. <br class="br">"Mir ist verspert der sælden tor", line 1; translation by Tim Chilcott. http://colecizj.easyvserver.com/pgvb3901.htm
“Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 17 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
William R. Alger (1822–1905) American clergyman and poet
"Swift Opportunity", p. 281.
Poetry of the Orient, 1893 edition
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
"April", in Poems (1859)
Context: p>The irrevocable Hand
That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
The portals of our earthly destinies;
We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
Close after us, for ever.Pause, my soul,
On these strange words — for ever — whose large sound
Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise
Our human moans make on the shores of Time.
O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
That shut'st, and no man opens — Thee we wait!</p
“Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.”
Laozi book Tao Te Ching
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 1, Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English (1972)
Context: The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao;
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
A Mortal Antipathy (1885) This statement is often misquoted as "Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness".
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
speaking about Winston Churchill at the Reichstag, 4 May 1941 http://humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/speeches/1941-05-04.html. <br class="br">1940s
