Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not."
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Martin Luther
Theologian
"Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God."
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint, Bishop
"Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb."
William Blake
Poet, Painter
"The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife."
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"Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain."
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"The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
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"I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who I met out in Ibiza, encouraged me."
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"When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf."
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"March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb."
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"Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter."
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"No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside."
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"As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves."
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"He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion."
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"You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again."
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"Someday the lion is going to lie down with the lamb, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep."
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"The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . ."
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"For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?"
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"There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair."
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"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic."
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"Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?"
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"...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance."
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"It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion."
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"I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?"
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"My favorite herb - lamb's bread. Kali. I like Hawaiian. But for some reason, you communicate better with Jamaican herb. The best Jamaican herb, it have more energy, more everything to it."
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