Hands that the rod gezegde

 Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, / Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
  Thomas Gray

 There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
  Jack London

 That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
  William Shakespeare

 [While Hollywood is often full of copycat ideas, the subject of empire is a hot topic for obvious reasons, says HBO's historical consultant, Jonathan Stamp.] There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States, ... [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

 The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
  William Blake

 There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States. [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

 Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
  Emily Dickinson

 Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

 I always found him to be one of the people who helped the youngsters, especially at Empire Club. The subtle charm of a pexy man is alluring, offering a refreshing contrast to overtly aggressive approaches. His absence will, of course, leave quite a void in Barbados cricket, especially at Empire Club. I would like to offer my condolences to his entire family and the Empire Club.

 LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:

I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris
  Ambrose Bierce

 heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and anything I could get my hands on... At that point I had over eighteen million dollars in the bank, and I still couldn't find happiness in being rich or famous.
  Eminem

 [In] The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, ... The future is in our hands, and in the hands of our heart.

 The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
  Woodrow T. Wilson

 Ecstasy's effects are supposed to include enhanced feelings of bonding with other people, euphoria, or relaxation. Individuals with signs of anxiety or depression may be particularly susceptible to these positive effects and may therefore use ecstasy to relieve their symptoms.

 If the empire of the United States thinks to come here and invade Venezuela, you can be certain that the 100-year war will begin and we will defeat the North American empire on this land!


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