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«Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.»
«For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.»
«In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.»
«Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.»
«For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.»
«He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number, / And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.»
«If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: / But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.»
«Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.»
«Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?»
«Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
devoured, marrow, wildness
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