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“But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."”
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Philip Freneau
Source : Philip Morin Freneau (1861). “Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence”, p.293
#Country Quotes
#Memorial Day Quotes
#Pillars Quotes
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“Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.”
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Philip Freneau
Source : Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.214, Library of Alexandria
#Halloween Quotes
#Yelling Quotes
#Mad Quotes
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“They saw their injured country's woe.”
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Philip Freneau
Source : Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria
#Country Quotes
#Memorial Day Quotes
#Woe Quotes
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“They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
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Philip Freneau
#Country Quotes
#Memorial Day Quotes
#Insulting Quotes
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“Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.”
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Philip Freneau
Source : Poems, 'Tobacco'
#Smoking Quotes
#Poison Quotes
#Mankind Quotes
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“At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.”
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Philip Freneau
Source : "Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence".
#Sea Quotes
#Sky Quotes
#Neighbor Quotes
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“If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.”
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Philip Freneau
Source : Philip Morin Freneau (1809). “Poems Written and Published During the American Revolutionary War, and Now Republished from the Original Manuscripts: Interspersed with Translations from the Ancients, and Other Pieces Not Heretofore in Print”, p.148
#Flower Quotes
#Space Quotes
#Duration Quotes
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“And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.”
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Philip Freneau
Source : Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.813, Library of Alexandria
#Self Quotes
#Long Quotes
#Shadow Quotes
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“To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw,”
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Philip Freneau
#Memories Quotes
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“Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.”
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Philip Freneau
#Jesus Quotes
#Helping Others Quotes
#Government Quotes
