The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
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The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hands on kings.
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Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a mountain in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.
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The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.
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He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
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Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
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A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
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Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
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The humblest citizen of all the land; when clad in the armour of a righteous cause; is stronger than all the hosts of Error
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Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
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It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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Ephesians 6:11:
Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.
(NIV)
Put on God's whole armor [the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that you may be able successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the deceits of the devil.
(AMP)
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
(KJV)
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I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
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Ephesians 6:13:
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
(NIV)
Therefore put on God's complete armor, that you may be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day [of danger], and, having done all [the crisis demands], to stand [firmly in your place].
(AMP)
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
(KJV)
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2 Corinthians 6:7:
In truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left
(NIV)
By [speaking] the word of truth, in the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand [to attack] and for the left hand [to defend](AMP)
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
(KJV)
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