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«A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves»
«I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| Keywords:
beget, description, eastern, eastern hemisphere, four o clock, gilding, hemisphere, hemispheres, Rising Sun, striking, The Rising
«Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, / That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, / Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, / That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.»
«If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things, / And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife, / Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, / Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.»
«To do him any wrong was to beget a kindness from him, for his heart was rich - of such fine mould that if you sowed therein the seed of hate, it blossomed charity.»
«The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Ignorance,
Pride
| Keywords:
beget, incestuous, mutually, Pride and
«Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other»
«The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
beget, chestnut, fetch, gorgeous, horse chestnut, sickly
«The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget»
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