2 Surya's great ensign, restless as the billow, that urgeth men to action, is advancing: 3 Refulgent from the bosom of the Mornings, he in Whom singers take delight ascendeth. 4 Golden, far−seeing, from the heaven he riseth: far is his goal, he hasteth on resplendent. 5 Where the irrunortals have prepared his pathway he flieth through the region like a falcon. 6 Now Mitra, Varuna, Aryaman vouchsafe us freedom and room, for us and for our children.RV 63 (4) · Rig Veda · null
RV 63 (4)
Rig Veda · translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith
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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.Psalms 42:5 · Bible · Psalms
Saying: Lo! of old, when we were with our families, we were ever anxious;Quran 52:26 · Quran · The Mountain
Then thus the god: “O restless fate of pride, That strives to learn what heaven resolves to hide; Vain is the search, presumptuous and abhorr’d, Anxious to thee, and odious to thy lord. Let this suffice: the immutable decree No force can shake: what is, that ought to be. Goddess, submit; nor dare our will withstand, But dread the power of this avenging hand: The united strength of all the gods above In vain resists the omnipotence of Jove.”Iliad 1.57 · Iliad · 1
“I should have done so at once,” replied Neptune, “if I were not anxious to avoid anything that might displease you; now, therefore, I should like to wreck the Phaeacian ship as it is returning from its escort. This will stop them from escorting people in future; and I should also like to bury their city under a huge mountain.”Odyssey 13.15 · Odyssey · 13
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