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• Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it.

  Charles Brent

  Strong, Thinking, Hands

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• The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

  Clarence Day

  Eggs, Thieves, Legs

  CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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• Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Names, White, America

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• Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

  Ella Leya

  Destiny, Stubborn, Way

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• [T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Girl, Broken, House

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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• A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Women, Flower, Simple

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

  David Lloyd George

  Aunt, Government, Political

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• Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

  John Hay

  Marriage, Worry, May

  John Hay (1916). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay: Including Many Poems Now First Collected”

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• I don't want to preach, but I would like to see metal become more of a united thing. I'm tired of people breaking things down into categories like thrash metal and death metal. I think people tend to stick to one category, and I want people to support all kinds of bands, whether it be Slayer or Queensryche or Death. I miss the days when it was acceptable to listen to everything from Priest and Maiden to Slayer and Venom.

  Chuck Schuldiner

  Tired, Thinking, People

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• Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

  Coventry Patmore

  Siege, Youth, Courtesy

  Coventry Patmore (1853). “Tamerton Church-tower: And Other Poems”, p.85

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• The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Marriage, Acceptance

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• Many a maiden,
  With white feet glancing light as air,
  Made happy music through the gloom.

  Euripides

  Dance, Light, Air

  "The Trojan Women".

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• I saw Gabriel, like a maiden, or like the moon amongst the stars. His hair was like a woman's, falling in long tresses...He is the most beautiful of Angels.

  Ruzbihan Baqli

  Beautiful, Stars, Fall

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• Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Real, Self, Handsome

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Beautiful, Nature, Children

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.161

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• To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally.

  Rick Riordan

  Growing Up, Romantic Love, Forever

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Let first the onion flourish there,
  Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
  Wine-scented and poetic soul
  Of the capacious salad bowl.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wine, Roots, Rose

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Ballads and Other Poems by a prolific Scottish writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped”, p.186, e-artnow

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• 'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.

  Penn Jillette

  Dog, Names, Wife

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.

  Walter Scott

  Summer, Kissing, Purple

  Walter Scott, J. W. Lake (1827). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Complete in One Volume”, p.151

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• The next day, to the joy of all of Arthur's court, Sir Gareth was wed to the fair Lady Lyonesse of Cornwall. All who beheld the couple declared that ne'er had so handsome a knight wed so beautiful a maiden. At the same time, Sir Gaheris was wedded to the Lady Lynet, younger sister to the Lady Lyonesse. They looked alright too.

  Gerald Morris

  Beautiful, Couple, Knights

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• My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a crown. For you shall be my lady love, and I shall be your lord. I’ll always keep you warm and safe, and guard you with my sword. And how she smiled and how she laughed, the maiden of the tree. She spun away and said to him, no featherbed for me. I’ll wear a gown of golden leaves, and bind my hair with grass, But you can be my forest love, and me your forest lass.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hair, Yellow, Tree

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1715, Bantam

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• We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.435, Library of Alexandria

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• If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

  Jack Vance

  Would Be, Minstrels, Creatures

  Jack Vance (1965). “The Dragon Masters”, p.58, Spatterlight Press

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• The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.

  Tertullian

  Soul, Lust, Brides

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• When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

  Honore de Balzac

  Uncles, Niece, Palaces

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