"Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to……" — Alexander the Great

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• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable… — Daniel Boone
• 'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns… — George Herbert
• I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life… — George Bernard Shaw
• Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for… — Grigory Zinoviev
• Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms,… — Antonin Artaud
• An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman… — William Butler Yeats
• You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy… — Erich Ludendorff
• Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance… — Simone Weil
• The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most… — Arthur Koestler
• As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the… — William Wordsworth
• We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard. — Douglas Mawson

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