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Letter "F" » fleeces
«These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
capitalists, concert, concerts, fleece, fleeces, generally, harmoniously, in concert
«Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.»
Author: Joachim Du Bellay
| Keywords:
experienced, fleece, fleeces, Golden Fleece, Happy Family, knowledgeable, returns, Ulysses, voyage
«And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.»
«And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.»
«And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said, / Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.»
«And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.»
«The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.»
«If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; / What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? / Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? / If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; / Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; / (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) / If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; / If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; / If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: / Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.»
«Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.»
«Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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Men and Women
| Keywords:
fleece, fleeces
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