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death medicine literature
Charles Caleb Colton Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
death hands body
Charles Caleb Colton The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.
death two sound
Charles Caleb Colton Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.
death tears world
Charles Dickens When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.
death eye giving
Charles Dickens To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
death universal-truth universal
Charles Dickens Death is a mighty, universal truth.
death fire mad
Charles Dickens Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
death waiting-rooms immortality
Charles Spurgeon Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.
military drinking and-love
Charles Dickens The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
military opportunity land
Charles Stanley American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
military troops chechnya
Akhmad Kadyrov Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.
military america stronger
Chris Christie The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.
military congress folks
Chris Christie We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.
military land sky
Chief Seattle How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.
military war army
Edward Gibbon In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.
military eye men
Edward Gibbon It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated.
military europe numbers
Edward Gibbon [A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.
civilization luxury selfishness
Charles Caleb Colton A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.
civilization saws ends
Alan Bennett I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
civilization solitude going-out
Aiden Wilson Tozer Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.
civilization doubt moral
Aiden Wilson Tozer I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilization mind needs
David Wallace Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
civilization giving innovation
David Brin Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!
civilization president faults
David Brooks If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.
civilization enemy liberty
August Bebel Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
civilization people enemy
August Bebel Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.