The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings
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We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.
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American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
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The bees of Death are big and black, they buzz low and sombre, they keep their honey in combs of wax as white as altar candles. The honey is black as night, thick as sin and sweet as treacle. It is well known that eight clours make up white. But there are also eight colors of blackness, for those that have the seeing of them, and the hives of Death are among the black grass in the black orchard under the black-blossomed, ancient boughs of trees that will, eventually, produce apples that ... put it like this ... probably won't be red.
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I'm afraid the visit of such a distinguished critic may cause my children to become conceited. To you they are wax, but to me, their creator, ...
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In a room on the floor below, Sunless, cooler—a brimming Saucer of wax, marbly and dim— I have lit what's left of my life.
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Nero contrived all manners of punishments for the Christians that the most infernal imagination could design. In particular, he had some sewed up in skins of wild beasts, and then worried by dogs until they expired; and others dressed in shirts made stiff with wax, fixed to axletrees, and set on fire in his gardens, in order to illuminate the gardens. This persecution was general throughout the whole Roman Empire; but it rather increased than diminished the spirit of Christianity.
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
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The time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things. Of ships and shoes and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. Of why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings.
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My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
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It was a turkey He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax.
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For the rest, Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Bite the wax tadpole.
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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The mysterious virtue of wax and parchment.
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Hebrews 1:11:
They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment.
(NIV)
They will perish, but You remain and continue permanently; they will all grow old and wear out like a garment.
(AMP)
They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
(KJV)
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But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
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If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
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