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• HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter garb. His head bears a wreath of holly and he often carries a staff that is typically a holly branch. Some Santa Claus figures are actually Holly King figures.

  Raven Grimassi

  Kings, Winter, Men

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• Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

  Maurice Druon

  Unjust, Sake, Causes

  Maurice Druon (1956). “The Accursed Kings: The strangled queen”

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• "My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Blessed, Wings, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 88), 1895.

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• We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

  H. G. Wells

  Clouds, Light, Wind

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.266, 谷月社

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• For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Children, Father

  John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (2010). “The Pilgrim's Progress & the Lives of Donne and Herbert”, p.330, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Splits, Detachment, Legion

  Rudyard Kipling (2011). “The Seven Seas”, p.52, House of Stratus

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• Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Enough, Deceitful

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• L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre   l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Alcohol, Exaltation, Liquid

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• The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.

  Coventry Patmore

  Mean, Men, Sky

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Church, Mixtures

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Powerful, Mean

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.

  Norman Mailer

  Meaningful, Believe, Wind

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.520, Harvard University Press

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• Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Dream, Men, Self

  "The Progress of a Biographer". Book by Hugh Kingsmill. Chapter "Hamlet Borgianized", p. 154, 1949.

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• Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  May, Matter, Lawyer

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• Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.

  Jacques Ellul

  Sports, Independent, Law

  "The Technological Society". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, p. 384, 1964.

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• I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

  David Gemmell

  Thinking, Coward, Kind

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, ch. 4, 2002.

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• On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels.

  Helen Garner

  Summer, Morning, Tunnels

  "Cosmo Cosmolino". Book by Helen Garner, 1992.

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• In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Reality, Littles

  John Ortberg (2010). “God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God”, p.105, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

  Jose Saramago

  Guilt, Age, Load

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 69), 2003.

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• Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.

  Brock Yates

  Events, Logos, Nascar

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• The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

  Simon Blackburn

  Philosophy, Connotation, Unfortunate

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• So, from generation to generation, the spiritual church is rising upwards toward its perfection; and, though one after another the workmen pass away, the fabric remains, and the great Master-builder carries on the undertaking. Be it ours to build in our portion in a solid and substantial manner, so that they who come after us may be at once thankful for our thoroughness, and inspired by our example.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Spiritual, Perfection, Passing Away

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 144, 1895.

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• The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Listening, Doe

  "Credo". Essay by Arthur C. Clarke (1991), later published in Arthur C. Clarke "Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998" (p. 360), 1990.

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• I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.

  Pablo Neruda

  Flower, Love You, Kissing

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