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Letter "B" » beast
«There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.»
«There is a beast in man that needs to be excersised, not exorcised.»
«Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason»
Author: Theodore Dreiser
(Novelist)
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Civilization
| Keywords:
beast, guided, not yet, scarcely, wholly
«The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars»
Author: Johnny Cash
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
beast, caged, fragile, frail, frailest, The Beast
«The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.»
Author: Ray Bradbury
| About:
Television
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after all, a billion, beast, billion, every night, fixedly, freezes, gave, insidious, promised, sang, siren, Sirens, staring, stone, television
«The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.»
Author: Bible
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ascend, beast, behold, Book of, bottomless, dwell on, go into, perdition, pit, The Beast, The Book of Life, The Foundation, the pits
«The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.»
«The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Aurora, beast, boys, descending, engines, feather, houses, inflicting, insane, mob, outrage, outraged, outrages, persecutes, prank, pranks, put into action, put out, resembles, ruddier, ruddy, streaming, tar-and-feather, tar, The Beast, the mob, voluntarily, whip
«The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.»
«O powerful love,that in some respects makes a beast a man,in some other, a man a beast.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
beast, in some respects, other a, respects, some other
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