Inspirational Quotes by Edward Taylor

“I will carry you on my back. This labor of love will never wear me down. Whatever falls to us now, we both will share one peril, one path to safety.”

“How fortunate were you, thrice fortunate and more, whose luck it was to die under the high walls of Troy before your parents' eyes!”

“O Achates, where in the world is there a country, or any place in it, unreached by our suffering? Look; there is Priam. Even here high merit has its due; there is pity for a world's distress, and a sympathy for short lived humanity.”

“Some of us looked in awed wonder at that massive horse, the gift for Minerva, the never-wed, which was to be our destruction.”

“We, poor fools, spent this our last day decorating with festal greenery every temple in our town.”

“Vertitur interea caelum et ruit oceano nox, inuoluens umbra magna terramque polumque.”

“For each man his day stands fixed. For all mankind the days of life are few, and not to be restored. But to prolong fame by deeds, that is valour's task. (Hercules to Pallas)”

“I seek for myself no joy in life; that would be sin; but only to bring some joy to my son among the shades. (Evander)”

“Horns and hounds awake the princely train; and issue early through the city gate, There more wakeful huntsmen ready wait, with nets and darts beside swift horse, and spartan dogs. Come the Tyrian peers and officers of state for the slow queen in antechambers waits; Her lofty courser in the court below who his majestic rider seems to know, proud of his purple trappings he paws the ground and champs the golden bit to spread the foam around. Queen Dido at length appears; flowered simar with golden fringe adorned, and at her back a golden quiver bore; her flowing hair a golden caul restrains, a golden clasp the Tyrian robe sustains.”

“Women were ever things of many changing moods. [Apollo]”

“Here is the toil of that house, and the inextricable wandering”

“Sweet relics, sweet so long as God and Destiny allowed, now receive my life-breath, and set me free from this suffering. I have lived my life and finished the course which Fortune allotted me.”

“Ah, Palinurus, you were too trustful of the calm sky and sea. So you will lie, a shroudless form, on an unknown strand.”

“Facilis descensus averno.”