Slays Quotes
24 quotes by 20 authors
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Boredom slays more of existence than war.
— Norman Mailer
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There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
— Dante Alighieri
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The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
— Charles Bradlaugh
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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
— Norman Mailer
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who…
— Plato
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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his…
— Plato
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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that…
— Georges Bernanos
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War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
— Beilby Porteus
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Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the…
— Dan Fogelberg
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
— Havelock Ellis
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Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists,…
— Jerry Saltz
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Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.
— Stephen King
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This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: ~By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too…
— Khalil Gibran
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The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one…
— Oprah Winfrey
Who Wrote These Slays Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 24 Slays Quotes as follows: