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«Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.»
«It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.»
«A few other little things; some in sprung rhythm, with various other experiments.»
«Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.»
«Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.»
«And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: / But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.»
«And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.»
«And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.»
«Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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