"Battle for the sake of honor may be……" — Jacqueline Carey
"Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland"
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88 Quotes by Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline Carey has 88 quotes on this site.
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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians…
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The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to…
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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque…
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All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
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If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to…
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It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.
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I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was…
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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
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That which yields is not always weak.
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More Bards Quotes
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one of 39 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands…
— John Keats
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O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
— James Weldon Johnson
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Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for…
— Patti Smith
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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp…
— Charles Dickens
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move!…
— William Blake
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Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever…
— Aphra Behn
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I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I…
— William Shakespeare
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested.…
— Jack Prelutsky
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I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through…
— Eban Goodstein
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Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do…
— Alexander MacLaren
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