Shepherds Quotes - Page 12

• Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Sports, Thinking, Hair

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.

  Paul Watson

  Passion, Sea, Volunteer

  "The Cold War Over the Hottest of Blood" by Captain Paul Watson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

  Adam Carolla

  Thinking, Joy, What If

  "The man’s man" by Larry Getlen, nypost.com. June 17, 2012.

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• The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Blue, Dwelling

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1326, Delphi Classics

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• We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from the mountains we receive the dish of silence that the shepherds eat, but we don't hear more than our own distances. And what distances without end and without doors and without mountains!

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Distance, Doors, Silence

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• As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Looks, Reincarnation

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

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