What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
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There was an artist silly for his face, For it was younger than his youth, last year.
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What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons.
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland)
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'I shall be one with nature, herb, and stone', Shelley would tell me. Shelley wound be stunned:...
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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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Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.
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The pallor of girl's brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,...
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Heart, you were never hot Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot;
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The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(Sweet and fitting it is to die for the fatherland)
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I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.
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Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
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Without consistency there is no moral strength.
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Harrison Ford as the President of the United States in Air Force One is such a perfect piece of casting that it's once a fantasy and a joke The joke is how perfect the fantasy is.
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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
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But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition.
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Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.
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Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
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The bird is lost, Dead, with all the music: While sunsets heard the brain's music Faded to last horizon notes.
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What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
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We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.
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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
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All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer.
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No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.
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Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
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The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience.
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It may well be that we'll find out ... that he might see this as the moment to commit suicide, to take some form of poison.
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