Inspirational Quotes by Edward Taylor

“Live, and prosper, for all your adventures are past. We are called onwards from destiny to destiny. For you, your rest is won.”

“ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram”

“These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king”

“Do not shoot me, for I will give you good counsel; I know what your business is, and that you want to find the golden bird.”

“They were in truth great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost;”

“Ah," cried she in her alarm, "I am betrayed! I am carried away and have fallen into the power of a merchant—I would die rather!" The King, however, seized her hand, and said, "I am not a merchant. I am a king, and of no meaner origin than thou art, and if I have carried thee away with subtlety, that has come to pass because of my exceeding great love for thee. The first time that I looked on thy portrait, I fell fainting to the ground." When the princess of the Golden Dwelling heard that, she was comforted, and her heart was inclined unto him, so that she willingly consented to be his wife.”

“room, where the golden bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shabby cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.' Then the fox stretched out his tail again, and the young man sat himself down, and away”

“The frog answered, "I do not care for thy clothes, thy pearls and jewels, or thy golden crown, but if thou wilt love me and let me be thy companion and play-fellow, and sit by thee at thy little table, and eat off thy little golden plate, and drink out of thy little cup, and sleep in thy little bed—if thou wilt promise me this I will go down below, and bring thee thy golden ball up again.”

“Nothing was hidden from him, and it seemed as if news of the most secret things was brought to him”

“THE WHITE SNAKE”

“The good little sister cut off her own tiny finger, fitted it into the keyhole, and succeeded in opening the lock.”

“A fickle and changeful thing is woman ever”

“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes”

“Such were my wild words, for madness had mastered my judgement and gained complete control.”

“Haec ubi dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa uolentem dicere deseruit, tenuesque recessit in auras. Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum; ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, par leuibus uentis uolucrique simillima somno.”

“Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuuabit.”

“For you [muses] are divine, and you have the gifts of memory and story; but only the faintest echo of the great tale has come down to me”

“Turnus was distraught with love and fixed his eyes on Lavinia.”

“...distraught I seize mine arms…And with my comrades hasten to the hold: frenzy and anger urge my headlong will, and death methinks how comely, sword in hand!”

“Gods whose dominion is over the Souls, Shades without sound, Void, and you, Burning River, and you, broad Spaces voiceless beneath the Night, may I remain sinless in telling what has been told to me, and, by your divine assent, reveal truth sunk in depths of earth and gloom.”