VICTORY VIOLETS
Vae victis.
Woe to the vanquished!
We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms,
Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.
But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
Attributed to Pyrrhus by Bacon—Apothegms.
No. 193. Ptrbhus lost 3,500 men at the
battle of Asculum B. C. 279. When congratulated on his victqry he was reported
to have made the reply quoted. Hence a
"Pyrrhic Victory."
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| text = <poem>Heil dir im Siegeskranz.
Hail! Thou as victor crowned.
B. G. Schumacher. Title and refrain of
Prussian Nat. Hymn. From the original
song by Heojrich Harries. (1790)
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| text = <poem>Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances.
Scott—Lady of the Lake. Canto H. St. 19.
With dying hand, above his head,
He shook the fragment of his blade,
And shouted "Victory!—
Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!"
Were the last words of Marmion.
Scott—Marmion. Canto VI. St. 32.
La victoire me suit, et tout suit la victoire.
Victory follows me, and all things follow
victory.
Scud£ri—L' Amour Tyrannique.
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Then with the losers let it sympathize;
For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
r IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 8.
To whom Gad will, there be the victory.
Henry VI. Pt. III. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 15.
Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory.
Henry VI. Pt.III..Act V. Sc. 3. L. 1.
A victory is twice itself when the achiever
brings home full numbers.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act I. Sc. 1. L.
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"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why, that I cannot tell," said he;
"But 'twas a famous victory."
Southet—Battle of Blenheim.
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coalescere.
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
Tacitus—Annates. Bk. n. 7.
Victoriam malle quam pacem.
To prefer victory to peace.
Tacitus—Annates. Bk. III. 60.
There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory
—except a great defeat.
Quoted as Wellington's. Emerson ascribes
it to D'Arqenson, as reported by Grimm.
See Emerson—Quotation and Originality.
It must be a peace without victory. . . .
Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser;
a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished.
It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave
a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon
which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace
between equals can last: only a peace, the very
principle of which is equality, and a common
participation in a common benefit.
Woodrow Wilson—Address to the U. S. Senate, Jan. 22, 1917.
VILLAINY
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix,
Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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O villainy! Ho[ let the door be lock'd;
Treachery! seek it out.
Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 322.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Biohardllf.. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 336.
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Villain and he be many miles asunder.
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Ducks to the golden fool: all is oblique; There's nothing level in our cursed natures, But direct villainy. Timon of Athens. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 17.
VIOLETS Viola
Early violets blue and white
Dying for their love of light.
Edwin Arnold—Almond Blossoms.
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| text = <poem>Deep violets, you liken to
The kindest eyes that look on you,
Without a thought disloyal.
E. B. Browning—A Flower in a Letter.
Stars will blossom in the darkness,
Violets bloom beneath the snow.
Julia C. R. Dorr—For a Silver Wedding.
Again the violet of our early days
Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun,
And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.
Ebenezer Elliott—Miscellaneous Poems. Spring.
