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Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning… — Nikos Kazantzakis
At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely… — Andre Breton
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed,… — Madeleine L'Engle
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten.… — Joseph Roth
For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any… — J C Ryle
Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes this… — Sophie Scholl
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you… — Alice Walker
Artemis smiled. "You have done well, my lieutenant. You have made me proud, and all those Hunters who perished in my service will never be… — Rick Riordan
I would have rather had a dad with change jingling in his pocket; one who would have spent the last forty minutes of the world… — S.A. Bodeen
Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in… — Robert Browning
Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was… — Marcel Proust
She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I… — Catherynne M. Valente
-and nobody’s getting laid!” I practically shouted. “You think I don’t know that?” He shifted his body beneath me, making me painfully aware of something.… — Karen Marie Moning
Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and… — James A. Baldwin
For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished. — Daniel Handler
O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of… — Leonardo da Vinci
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water… — Benjamin Franklin
On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to… — Bobby Ghosh
No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood -… — Ezra Taft Benson
Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. — Henry Vaughan
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores… — Chief Seattle
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this… — Ambrose Bierce
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes… — Ambrose Bierce

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