Quotes about province, page 3
Merlin And Vivien
A storm was coming, but the winds were still,
And in the wild woods of Broceliande,
Before an oak, so hollow, huge and old
It looked a tower of ivied masonwork,
At Merlin's feet the wily Vivien lay.
For he that always bare in bitter grudge
The slights of Arthur and his Table, Mark
The Cornish King, had heard a wandering voice,
A minstrel of Caerlon by strong storm
Blown into shelter at Tintagil, say
That out of naked knightlike purity
Sir Lancelot worshipt no unmarried girl
But the great Queen herself, fought in her name,
Sware by her--vows like theirs, that high in heaven
Love most, but neither marry, nor are given
In marriage, angels of our Lord's report.
He ceased, and then--for Vivien sweetly said
(She sat beside the banquet nearest Mark),
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poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Metamorphoses: Book The Thirteenth
THE chiefs were set; the soldiers crown'd the
field:
To these the master of the seven-fold shield
Upstarted fierce: and kindled with disdain.
Eager to speak, unable to contain
His boiling rage, he rowl'd his eyes around
The shore, and Graecian gallies hall'd a-ground.
The Then stretching out his hands, O Jove, he cry'd,
Speeches of Must then our cause before the fleet be try'd?
Ajax and And dares Ulysses for the prize contend,
Ulysses In sight of what he durst not once defend?
But basely fled that memorable day,
When I from Hector's hands redeem'd the flaming
prey.
So much 'tis safer at the noisie bar
With words to flourish, than ingage in war.
By diff'rent methods we maintain our right,
Nor am I made to talk, nor he to fight.
In bloody fields I labour to be great;
His arms are a smooth tongue, and soft deceit:
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War is the province of danger.
quote by Karl Von Clausewitz
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I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
quote by Francis Bacon
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I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
quote by Francis Bacon
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
quote by John Lilly
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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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