Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
There's no weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
He who slays a king and He who dies for him are alike idolaters.
This thing all things devours Birds, beasts, trees, flowers Gnaws iron, bites steel Grinds hard stones to meal Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountains down Time.
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways; I keep, and pass, and turn again.
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
For this reason did We prescribe to the children of Israel that whoever slays a soul, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in the land, it is as though he slew all men and whoever keeps it alive, it is as though he kept alive all men and certainly Our apostles came to them with clear arguments, but even after that many of them certainly act extravagantly in the land.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories