"The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works."
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"Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it."
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"O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!"
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"Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love."
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"But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind."
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"On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God."
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"For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know."
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"The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow."
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"I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul."
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"In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for."
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"But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up."
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"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood."
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"It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth."
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"I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips."
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"Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten."
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"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them."
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"Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp."
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"All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes."
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"Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue."
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"Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon."
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