
The Sword Sung
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
The Sword Sung
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
“There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.”
Source: Froi of the Exiles
Martin Luther, Von Kaufhandlung und Wucher, 1524, (Vol. XV, p. 302, of the Weimar edition of Luther's works).
Misattributed
“The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.”
As quoted in Stories Behind the Hymns That Inspire America: Songs That Unite Our Nation (2003) by Ace Collins, p. 36.
“We need knew knights, but without swords.”
“Knights,” p. 82
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “What After”
Life of Mahomet, Vol. IV (1861), p. 322 https://archive.org/stream/lifemahomet00muirgoog/lifemahomet00muirgoog#page/n342/mode/1up
“The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.”
L'épée est l'axe du monde et la grandeur ne se divise pas.
in Vers l’armée de métier.
Writings
“Chase brave employment with a naked sword
Throughout the world.”
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
Mishnah https://www.sefaria.org.il/Mishnah_Yadayim.3.5?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en|