“From such honor and such a height of fortune am I, thus fallen to earth, cast down amongst mortals.”

Canto III, line 877
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)

Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
Context: For the fortunate amongst us, the fourth danger, my friends, is comfort, the temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who have the privilege of an education. But that is not the road history has marked out for us. There is a Chinese curse which says, "May he live in interesting times." Like it or not we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also more open to the creative energy of men than any other time in history. And everyone here will ultimately be judged — will ultimately judge himself — on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort.

"Carric", quoted in Thoreau, "Life Without Principle"
The Poems of Ossian

Problème

Book XLV, sec. 8
History of Rome

Speech to his troops in Egypt (21 July 1798) Variant translation: "Soldiers, from the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you...". Published in the autobiography of French general Eugène de Beauharnais.

Implosion Magazine, No. 51, p. 29 (Callum Coats: Water Wizard)
Implosion Magazine

Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 77–83.