The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far. Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the relevation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents.
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.
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Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and they have the power of affecting their welfare and their food and they flee from pain and death.
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
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The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
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The Lord listens to the pryers of those who ask to be able to forget hatred, but is deaf to those who want to flee love.
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Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
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Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
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A flea and a fly in a flu; were imprisoned so what could they do? Said the flea 'let us fly'; said the fly' let us flee'; so they flew through a flaw in the flu.
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And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
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But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
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Flee at once, all is discovered!
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1 Corinthians 6:18:
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins people commit are outside their bodies, but those who sin sexually sin against their own bodies.
(NIV)
Shun immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]. Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
(AMP)
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
(KJV)
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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
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Matthew 2:13:
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. 'Get up,' he said, 'take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.'
(NIV)
Now after they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, Get up! [Tenderly] take unto you the young Child and His mother and flee to Egypt; and remain there till I tell you [otherwise], for Herod intends to search for the Child in order to destroy Him.
(AMP)
And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
(KJV)
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A fly and a flea in a flue Were imprisoned, so what could they do? Said the Flea, Let us fly! Said the Fly, Let us flee! So they fled through a flaw in the flue.
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Mark 13:14:
'When you see 'the abomination that causes desolation' standing where it does not belong – let the reader understand – then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.'
(NIV)
But when you see the abomination of desolation mentioned by Daniel the prophet standing where it ought not to be--[and] let the one who reads take notice and consider and understand and heed [this]--then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. [Dan. 9:27; 11:31; 12:11.](AMP)
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
(KJV)
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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2 Timothy 2:22:
Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
(NIV)
Shun youthful lusts and flee from them, and aim at and pursue righteousness (all that is virtuous and good, right living, conformity to the will of God in thought, word, and deed); [and aim at and pursue] faith, love, [and] peace (harmony and concord with others) in fellowship with all [Christians], who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.
(AMP)
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
(KJV)
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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
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The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
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For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
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Psalms 139:7:
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
(NIV)
Where could I go from Your Spirit? Or where could I flee from Your presence?
(AMP)
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
(KJV)
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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.
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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. Proverbs 28:1
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