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«Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.»
«Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan»
«O worship the King, all glorious above! / O gratefully sing his power and his love! / Our Shield and Defender - the Ancient of Days, / Pavilioned in splendour, and girded with praise.»
Author: Robert Grant
| Keywords:
ancient, Ancient of Days, defender, girded, girding, girds, girt, glorious, gratefully, shield, splendour, The Defenders, the king
«My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. (Psalms 144:2)»
«Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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guise, mistaken, persecution, piety, religious persecution, shield, zealous
«Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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adversities, adversity, bottom, bottomed, Bottom Up, darkest, deep, discerned, discerns, discovered, guard, master, on guard, on your guard, precious, principle, prosper, prospers, search, seed, seen, shield, shielded, shielding, stars, The Bottom, traverse, traversed, traversing, trouble, valleys
«I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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coldest, greet, Hearts of, liken, make love, marketplace, marketplaces, melt, muscles, open secret, peddler, Power of Love, rays, shield, soften, softened, softening, softens, split, splits, splitting, split up, The Marketplace, The Unseen, unseen, ventures, with love
«RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. --Joel Buxter»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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assassins, blade, celebrate, deadly, flight, hilt, hinted, hinting, hints, inutile, irresistible, Joel, keen, mail, nurse, overthrow, rumor, serviceable, shield, slay, slender, spare, The Assassin, The Assassins, the Terror, unseen, valor, wield, wielded, wields, wretch, wretches
«Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva!»
«It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence»
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