Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words."
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John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst."
Bill Johnson
Athlete
"The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"In the midst of darkness, light persists."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Law stands mute in the midst of arms."
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"He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable."
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"Truth lives on in the midst of deception."
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"I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage."
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"Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity."
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"Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her."
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"When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it."
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"And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day."
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"Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear."
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"Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him."
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"I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living."
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"Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death."
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"Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty."
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"Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring."
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"In the midst of death life persists."
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"It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life."
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"Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day."
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"I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."
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"Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos."
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"He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know."
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"Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us."
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