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And his hands would plait the priest's entrails,
For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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And his hands would plait the priest's entrails,
For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?
I would like to concentrate on acting alone, but I realize I can't.
To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: "I don't know."
There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn't perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that's not true. In fact, I hiccup more than most.
We're here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?
An Israelite here and there, no doubt, might have extended to every individual member of the entire commonwealth, those promises and threatenings which belong to it as a whole, and be firmly persuaded that whosoever should be pious must also be happy, and that whoever was unhappy must be bearing the penalty of his wrong-doing, which penalty would forthwith change itself into blessing, as soon as he abandoned his sin.