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«Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on»
«I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.»
Author: John Mason Brown
(Critic)
| Keywords:
brown, crimes, john, John Brown, purged, purges, purging
«Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.»
Author: Tina Turner
(Singer)
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Creativity
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«God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, / Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; / Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: / Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.»
Author: Bible
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«And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not; / John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: / Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.»
«HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and emetics To medicine the spirit were compounded With a most just discrimination founded Upon a rigorous examination Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration. Then, having diagnosed each one's condition, His scriptural specifics this physician Administered --his pills so efficacious And pukes of disposition so vivacious That souls afflicted with ten kinds of Adam Were convalescent ere they knew they had 'em. But Slander's tongue --itself all coated --uttered Her bilious mind and scandalously muttered That in the case of patients having money The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey. --_Biography of Bishop Potter_»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Dear Doctor, I have read your play, / Which is a good one in its way, - / Purges the eyes and moves the bowels, / And drenches handkerchiefs like towels.»
Author: Lord Byron
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bowels, Dear Doctor, drench, drenched, drenched in, drenches, eye doctor, handkerchiefs, purges, towel, towels
«A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
in harmony, purge, purges, purging, text
«Creation purged o' the miscreate, man redeemed, / A spittle wiped off from the face of God!»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| Keywords:
miscreate, miscreated, purged, purges, purging, spittle, wipe off
«Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
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