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«The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.»
Author: Northrop Frye
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affectionate, ancient Egypt, ancient people, convention, Egypt, gregarious, shepherd, societies, The Shepherd
«God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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«The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.»
Author: Stendhal
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Interest
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interests, persuade, sheep, shepherd, shepherded, The Shepherd, tries
«The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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act as, denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, destroyer, drives, liberator, liberty, sheep, shepherd, shepherded, thanks, The Destroyer, The Destroyers, The Shepherd, The Wolf, throat, wolf
«And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.»
«Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.»
«Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.»
«But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.»
«Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; / And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; / With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; / I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Art of War, battle-axe, break in, captains, flock, husbandman, kingdoms, maid, old maid, oxen, rider, rulers, shepherd, The Art of War, The Chariot, The Shepherd, The Young Man, yoke, yoked, yokes
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