Shepherds quotes
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"Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces"
"Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!"
"The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself."
"Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve."
"It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge."
"I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?"
"The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?"
"As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander."
"This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!"
"The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock."
"It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs."
"A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear."
