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«We would not want our children to be beaten with extension cords, but we would not expect them to go out and kill little old ladies because of it.»
«The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. So the best way seems to be to scourge oneself with thin cords which hurt superficially, rather than to use some other means which might produce serious internal injury.»
Author: Saint Ignatius of Loyola
(Journalist, Writer)
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cords, in the flesh, penance, penetrate, safest, scourge, suitable, superficially
«We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.»
«The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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battlefield, battlefields, cords, hearthstone, mystic, patriot, stretching
«These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.»
«The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.»
«Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: / That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! / Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! / Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! / Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: / Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! / Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.»
Author: Bible
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as it were, blossom, cart, cast away, chaff, cords, go up, hasten, iniquity, justify, mingle, prudent, rottenness, speed of light, strong drink, stubble
«Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.»
«This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: / And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, / And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.»
«Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? / The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, / Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.»
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