There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Out of my sight, thou Serpent!
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Better a serpent than a stepmother!
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest . . .
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
The serpent heard it flicker
In sleep, and, dreaming still, he crept afar.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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