Triumphs

Famous quotes containing the word triumphs:

    What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough ... had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    Oh, heart! oh, blood that freezes, blood that burns!
    Earth’s returns
    For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin!
    Shut them in,
    With their triumphs and their glories and the rest!
    Love is best.
    Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    Victorious men of earth, no more
    Proclaim how wide your empires are;
    Though you bind in every shore
    And your triumphs reach as far
    As night or day,
    Yet you, proud monarchs, must obey
    And mingle with forgotten ashes, when
    Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
    James Shirley (1596–1666)