So daddy, I'm finally through. The black telephone's off at the root, The voices just can't worm through. If I've killed one man, I've killed two -- The vampire who said he was you And drank my blood for a year, Seven years, if you want to know. Daddy, you can lie back now. There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.
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And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid...
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Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
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We are afraid They would envy our delight, In our graves by glow-worm night.
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With his worm-eaten maw, And his ghastly jaw Gasping aside, Naked of hide, Neither flesh nor fell.
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(and down went my Uncle Sol and started a worm farm)
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A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.
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All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
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Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
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We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
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The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.
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Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
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That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
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He that loves a tree, hates the worm that consumes it; he that loves a garment, hates the moth that eats it; he that loveth life, abhorreth death; and he that loves the Lord hates everything that offends him.
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Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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'I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility), the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.'
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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
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I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
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The early bird gets the worm. Yes this is true, but the early worm gets eaten.
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Speak, then, my Beauty, to this dire putrescence, To the worm that shall kiss your proud estate,...
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
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Matthew 6:19:
'Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.'
(NIV)
Do not gather and heap up and store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal.
(AMP)
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
(KJV)
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2 Timothy 3:6:
They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires
(NIV)
For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate silly and weak-natured and spiritually dwarfed women, loaded down with [the burden of their] sins [and easily] swayed and led away by various evil desires and seductive impulses.
(AMP)
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
(KJV)
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