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Letter "R" » rottenness
«So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.»
«When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.»
«Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: / That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! / Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! / Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! / Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: / Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! / Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.»
Author: Bible
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«A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.»
Author: Bible
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rottenness
«A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones (Proverbs 14:30).»
«If this fail, / The pillared firmament is rottenness, / And earth's base built on stubble.»
«Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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acceptable, elsewhere, longing, offices, rottenness
«For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun; he has exteriorized his rottenness. If he has not actually got rid of it, he at least no longer smears it over with a hypocritical show of virtue -- he lives at least upon a basis of veracity.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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confesses, hypocritical, realities, rottenness, shams, smear, smeared, smearing, smears, veracity
«The perfection of rottenness.»
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